Preliminary Exercise

For our preliminary exercise we had to create a short scene, which consisted of someone entering a room, and have a conversation which consisted of at least four lines of dialogue. I played the part of the girl's father, whilst Andrew Lloyd-Jones played the boyfriend, with Alice Haydock as cameraman. We were able to keep our shots in focus,by using the rule of thirds we could ensure we kept the viewers attention. After filming once, we were aware that I was backlit against the light from the window. We corrected this by lowering the blinds for the second time of filming. The main changes we would have made is to have shot an over the shoulder shot from my point of view when Andrew enters the room to show the intensity of the moment. We would also have used high and low angle shots more effectively to give a sense of power or weakness.

There was no real problems with editing. Our shots were as good as they could be with the background we had too use at the time. we did have one jump cut, but we managed to sort it out by using a different version of the same shot. By shooting all the shots a number of times we could be sure we had a variety to choose from once we came to editing.

Once we lowered the blinds the lighting was fine for shooting, the background wasn't the most appropriate place to use, but it was all that was available at the time. We had a view different ideas on shots and dialogue etc, but as a whole our group worked well, with a good use of constructive criticism which helped to improve our scene.