Preliminary task number two. For the majority of this I was not present therefore I missed out on the planning and the filming but was back just in time to help my group edit what they had filmed. We started by placing all of the clips in chronological order which was easier said than done, they didn't record in chronological order therefore we had to place and move small clips around which wasn't too bad. Next we needed to add fades etc. in order to make the clips flow. There was a slight error with this when the protagonist is running away he covers an immense amount of space in a exceedingly short amount of time which left a few viewers confused as to how he ran so far in so little time. This was due to the chaser catching up to the protagonist during the filming, or so I was told. They couldn't quite pinpoint where he needed to run from so they took a wild guess. In the tasks final stage it looked far better than I first thought.

Sorry its a short one this week! I was ill and missed a lot of time. Stay active as I will be discussing the main  task in a few days!

Hello everyone! this is the first post on my blog.
The filming for the preliminary task went pretty well. The idea was to make mistakes in it to show what mistakes we made and learn from them in the final task.
The task itself was to record someone walking into a room, having small dialog before walking out of the room. This may seem like a very easy and bland task but it offers a lot of freedom on what we want to base the storyline on as well as giving us loads of freedom for camera angles. Our very first shot is a worms eye view looking up then some feet step over it before quickly cutting to the feet walking from just behind, a tracking shot. We did this to try and create tension. We wanted to use a wide range of camera angles so in the next shot we continued tracking but did it over the protagonist's shoulder to try and make him look bigger and more important. We then fade into a close up of his hand opening the door handle, this took quite a while to sync to make it look good!
More on editing, it was rather easy as it was a very linear task and not much editing was needed and we didn't want to over edit it and make it look bad.
The final outcome wasn't the best as there is a few continuity errors in it which one member of the group tried to cover with a green screen image which took the seriousness of the short film away. As far as acting and that small bit of editing are concerned I thought it went very well and we managed to do everything in just a few shots even though we're very picky!

This has been my first post and I hope you all stick around for more!