Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have

learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

In our preliminary task we used the process of our main character walking down the corridor to give an impression of what he was looking at and how he was walking. This was also used to build the tension to what was about to happen

Unfortunately we exaggerated the effect of someone walking to the extent of which we made them look like they were stumbling around.

Shot Reverse Shot

We learnt that we should only use shot reverse shot if we were looking at our character from a third person perspective as doing from a first person perspective wouldn’t be as effective as if it was someone looking into this persons life.

This made the film look professional as we executed it reasonably well and kept a simple sense of continuity throughout. It was also edited simply and smoothly as we didn’t want too many jump cuts as that wasn’t the genre of our film and we wanted to create a calm atmosphere.

Shot Reverse Shot – How It Changed

In our original task we kept to the 180 degree rule really easily as it meant we just had to make sure the camera faced a certain way without it moving or cutting to a shot of another part of the room.

We transferred this knowledge we had over to our final piece as we only showed our main soldier walking through the field to only on one side. This was used because we felt that we only needed to show one half of the field to represent where the character was and how alone he was. Put simply, the soldier was the sole focus of the sequence not necessarily what was around him.

180 Degree Rule

We also learnt that you need lots of lighting to make the characters seen clearly as shown above we had the lights turned up all the way but we only found out it wasn’t bright enough until editing so we had no choice but to work with what we had.

So when it came to our main task we opened all the curtains in the room we were filming in and used what lighting we had (lamps and the main room lighting) to make sure people could see the characters emotion clearly. And as clearly seen in the final cut the character can be clearly seen.

Lighting

We used this match on action to show our character in our preliminary task as he walked through a door. This was a simple piece of editing we felt we could have done better with.

So when we next used a match on action it was of our character walking down a wet and muddy lane and then as he walked into a puddle it cut to a close up of our soldier stepping in the puddle which worked as a good transition into the next shot. One thing that may be considered about the shot was it may of paused on the puddle too long after it had been stepped in.

Match On Action