History Of Horror Films

Introduction To Main Task

Preliminary Task Evaluation

The set brief that we were given for the preliminary task was to film a scene of two people, one of which opens a door, crosses a room and sits down in a chair opposite the other character, she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task had to demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

As soon as we found out our brief for our preliminary task, we looked into the meanings of the media related words used in the brief. These included match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule. We used OCR guides to explain these to us so that we understood what was needed in our preliminary task. We then studied the different types of shots that we could use in our task. After looking at the different types, we then made our own examples of these different types of shots and posted them on our blog to show that we had understood the differences and so they were stored somewhere if we need to refer to them again.
After gaining the knowledge we needed for the preliminary task, we then wrote our group brief and back ground information about our scenario. 'Liam (16) walks up and opens a classroom door. He then walks up to the table and sits down on the opposite chair to Jack(16) who is already sat down doing computer work. Liam then asks about some homework.' 
After deciding our background to the filming. We used the 12 shot challenge to produce a story board of the shots we would use in our filming. We wrote down the cast needed, location, the shot number, the type of shot, if there was any movement, the dialogue that would be used (if any) and then a quick sketch of what the shit would look like. We then used Slideshare to put all the pictures of the story board together and published this on our blog to show what the outline of our film would be. This helped prepare us for our filming as we know who shots we needed to film and could tick them off as we filmed the shot. It also kept our filming organised and this meant we were able to be efficient when filming. 
After doing our storyboard, we went to the different locations we would be filming and put made sure they were suitable for the film. We then took pictures so that we knew where we were going to film and posted them on our blog with a small explanation of why we chose this area to film. 
We the used casting to chose our actors for the film after picking the people to play Liam and Jack, we posted a picture of them on our blog and explained why we chose these people. 
We then practiced using the editing software that we would be using to edit our own film. This meant that we could learn the things needed to edit our film opening already so that when it comes to editing our film opening, we already know the basics of what to do. 
Finally, before filming we made a schedule of timings for filming so that we could make sure everyone knew what they were doing, everything was filmed efficiently and so we did miss off any of the shots. 






Our filming when smoothly. I feel this was because of the planning that we had done previously to the filming. Because we had story boarded, looked at the locations, picked the actors and wrote up the schedule of filming, Everyone know what we needed to do and how long we had to do it. I feel that planning and looking into who was going to play our roles meant that we had chosen the correct person to play each role and the filming was easier. Looking at where we would film meant that we already knew where we were filming was suitable and didn't have to go around searching for the correct place to film.






The new skills i learnt were, copying videos into the software, learning how to cut the videos and how to remove sound if needed, putting the different videos in the correct order, editing them to have perfect match on action, adding music into the back ground and the use of transitions. I applied all of these skills to make sure that the task flowed well, using match on action to make sure that the actions all linked together, I cut the videos so that the film only had the relevant scenes and parts of the videos in it. I used music to make the film more interesting and set the mood of the film.

I feel that our film meets the expectations of the set brief that we were given. This is because we had two characters, one walked into a room and they exchanged two lines of dialogue each.
The positives of our film were:

•  We had everything planned which meant our filming was done to the time scale we had set it out to be.
• The filming was not too shaky so it did not look too unprofessional.
• Our filmed clips were to the point and done easily and quickly as the actors were briefed before the filming.
• We worked well together as a team so got everything we need to do done in the allotted time.

The negatives of our film were:

• Some of our filming was done in portrait and one other in landscape so we could not use that clip as the fluidity of the film would not have been there.
• There was a lot of background noise at some points of our filming and some points were really quiet which made the film quite inconsistent. 
• The speaking of the actors was not very loud which may be because of the filing equipment that we used. 

One area of development for our main task is to make sure all our filming is done either portrait or landscape but not a mixture of both.  Another area of development would be to make a better choice in filming equipment and make the actors speak louder so that we can hear what they are saying better. Finally, I would also use a different location or use that location at a different time as there was a lot of background noise that we did not want in our filming. 

Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task: Filming Schedule

Date: 9th October 2015	Cast	Location	Props	Equipment	Health and Safety
11:50		Outside of school		Ipad
12:00	Aaron	Hallway	Paper/homework	Ipad
12:10	Aaron	Hallway/Door	Door	Ipad
12:15	Alex	Classroom	Laptop and Paper	Ipad
12:20	Alex Aaron	Classroom	Laptop and Paper	Ipad

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