Research and film practice

At the beginning of todays lesson, we watched a shot reverse shot clip. It broke down each step into a simpler version. This really helped us as it told us everything we needed to know about how to shoot a good shot reverse shot sequence. We took notes whilst watching this so we could work on similar ideas when it was finished. After looking at our notes and seeing what advice was important and what wasn't, we looked at our story board again. We began to discuss ideas on what we had already got down and if it needed changing or not and how we should finish the end of it off as we did not finish it last lesson. However, we did not know how it was properly going to look on the camera. We all thought we should act out the shots that we didnt know would look right. This helped a lot. Tom then had the idea of filming it on his camera on his phone. It was not the same as shooting it on a proper camera but it helped give us an idea of what we shoudl change and what we shoudl keep. We found that it was a struggle to get the continuity of the two shots right, but we masterd it eventually and this has given us massive help on what we want to do for the proper preliminary task. As we acted each shot and filmed it, using the pause button as though it were an cut tool, we began to draw each shot on the storyboard. We finished our storyboard after many retakes and changes of what we had originally planned to do. We figured out who was acting in the sezuence and who was filming. We made loads of progress today which has helped on speeing up the process. Next lesson we plan on starting to film the actual preliminary task on the cameras.