Prelim shoot

Doing our prelim was an ejoyable experience and very informative as it was the first time that I had actually filmed something from a number of angles. The roles in my group were simple, Ollie (me) and Crerar were the actors, performing a short sequence, using the storyboard given to us by Adam. Filming was jointly done by Ben and Lauren, where the task of director was given to Katie. To begin shooting this sequence we bubbled our camera (Sony NX5) and got the white balance right by holding a blank white piece of paper before the camera. The opening shot was very simple as all that it involved was holding a piece of paper infront of the camera that had our names written upon it. Things became slightly tricker but remained possible as we moved onto shooting different angles. But Paul showed us a new way of doing this in that he told us that we should first shoot the entire scene with a wide shot, then the whole thing again with a over the shoulder shot, close up, mid shot and so on..
On finishing these shots we added some of our own to present a better understanding of our story to the audience. For example, we did an over the shoulder shot of pictures on a phone of Crerars 'husband'. This was because our story was about a women who is being told by her lover to get out of the house and run away with him before her husband gets back.

Overall, I feel that this task was a great success as it showed me the basic principles of shooting a scene, how to direct a piece and also how to work with the camera to gain the desired shot.