Prelim Task Evaluation

For our prelim Evaluation we got given a script to follow and told which shots to shoot. We got designated a class room to shoot in, at first I was slightly unhappy with our location, but after setting everything up it didn’t look so bad. My role while filing was camera control, this meant that arranged the camera each time checking that everything that was meant to be in the frame is in the correct place. I was very impressed with our light, we had the light on the victim and then half way across James’s face, this really added to the atmosphere. The lighting was quiet hard and bright this meant the victim looked a lot more scared. We also had the surrounding area to the set pitch black this was effective as it meant that we had the darkness in the edge of the frame so the protagonist was able to walk out of the dark and into the light.
Each time I moved the camera I bubbled it this was to make sure that the camera was level, what we wanted to shoot although some directors have an uneven camera purposely. We have a slight problem with our sound equipment, this ment int he end we had to use a boom microphone,

this left us wiht the problem of Ben making sure that the boom microphone was not in the frame, as it often was. obviously the picture on the left is not Ben.
I thought that the angles that we used were very effective and looked good in the outcome. As for the order of shoooting, we shoot all the wide shots first, we then moved into the over the sholder shots and finally did the close ups, not only will this make editing easier but it also was a lot easier to shoot. As for the 180degree rule, we stuck to it but we were on the line of 180, we stuck to it in order to make it easier for us and to amke sure that the actors stayed on the right side of the camera.