The Preliminary Task for filming

Preliminary task from Ben Lyons on Vimeo.
For our preliminary task for Media Studies ALevel we had to film.

• Somebody walking into a room.
• Walking across the room.
• Sitting down.
• And then starting a conversation.

As easy as that sounds we had to use different camera shots for example we had to use match on actions and over the shoulder shots so we had to film some parts more than once e.g. opening the door for the match on action and the dialogue for the over the shoulder shots
So me and my friends Curtis and Liam went out and filmed this task and the video you see above is what we got after Liam edited it.

Doing this Preliminary task taught me how hard it is to film, edit and act. This is because if you are filming you need to concentrate on either the main character (Curtis) or the main events (Curtis walking into the room) and you cannot cut concentration. When acting you have to make sure that everything is 100% perfect as you are the centre of attention, if you have to do a match on action you have to do the EXACT same thing the second time as you did the first time also if you have to do a match on action but the filming again on a different day you will need the same clothes as you were wearing before so it doesn't mess up the film. When editing you will need to work hard as you are left with a lot of little clips and you are meant to make it a bigger movie and you have to make it without any jumpy bits (where one second your walking towards the door next second you already walked through)