The scenario of this exercise what to create a scene where a character would open the door, cross the room and sit down opposite another character where they will exchange a couple lines of dialouge. We could pick our own scenario on who the characters are and why they were there to help make this exercise more interesting. For example the character could run into the room instead of just walking or the people could be talking about a specific topic while they are in the room. This was good because as a group we could be as creative as we wanted to be with it.
Rule of thirds- splits the picture into 6 small boxes, the rule is that the person or animals eyes should always be in line with the first horizontal line that you see on the grid. This also means that all characters should have the same rule of being on that line this means they have eyeline match which makes the continuity appear much clearer.
180 Degree Rule- is when two characters are being shot having a conversation that the camera shouldnt go beyone the 180 degree mark as this means that the shot can be interpreted differently and it will look like the people have changed positions or that they may be looking from a different view.
Match on action- is when a cut is used between two shots to show a strong relationship and helps the work flow better instead of there being lots of cuts and stops.
Shot Reverse Shot- This shot is mainly used in a conversation format, this goes from a shot of one character to the other and back to the previous shot.
The key media skills that had to be used in this piece of work was to succesfully use the rule of thirds continually through the piece of work, the 180 degree rule so it was the same point of view so it wouldnt confuse the audience, a scene of match on action and atleast one part which included shot reverse shot. i had to make sure I included all these shots to make sure I could get the best possible grade.
I planned my piece with my group member Akif, we decided on a scenario that we could use which would fit to the task we was given. We had to create a storyboard which would help us to plan out all the different shot types we would use, the sounds, the lighting, the camera movement and a small description of what will take place in the shot. We then gained another team member who was there to help with the filming process, he played one of the characters which stopped us from having to find someone else to play that role. Having that extra team member helped alot as we could share our ideas and he could give us feedback from what he thought of it and so we could make improvements before we started to film.
I think the grouping was succesfull as we was all determined to get our work finished to the best of our ability which made it easier as we could help eachother out and we would listen to eachothers opinions on whether the shot type was right and if we was including all of the different methods that had to be included in our filming. My main role was to film as both of my group members were playing the characters which was the easier option to do. I think if i did it again i would have worked with the same people as eventhough one group member joined us later, we still made sure he was involved and he had as much input as we did. Sometimes i found it hard to concentrate as when we worked together we got distracted but as a group we made sure to stay focus when we had to film certain shots and the facial expressions had to remain serious.
Instead of creating a scenario that was just a character walking into the room sitting down and talking, we created something that was a bit more exciting and not as boring.We decided on creating a peice where one boy plays the character of someone who has been in jail and has been taken out by a group of men that want the money back that he had lost by getting caught by the police. We used a different location which was set up in one of the classrooms in the school, which was rather large and just had a desk and chair in the corner of the room. We tryed to make the room dark and we used a lamp to try and light up the room. We wanted to do this to make it seem like the man was being interegated like you see on police programmes.This wasnt as succesfull as we hoped because the room was lighter than we expected and we couldnt block the windows in the ceiling. I think the lamp did create a good affect as we didnt really want to show the "boss's" identity so we used cut aways to create a character for the audience but so not too much was given away. The characters were dressed up in casual clothing but the "boss" wore a shirt, trousers and tie, this created a feel for the audience which showed that he was a bit dodgy and was superior to the other men that were working for him We tried to use a variety of shots which would make it seem better compared to it being similar shots throughout. We used high angle shots, mid shots, two shots, long shots, close ups and extreme closeups to show our camera skills as a group.
Having a storyboard helped us to get an idea of what we wanted our scenario to look like, eventhough some of the shots we changed as they didnt fit as well as we hoped them to. We stuck to all of our original shots apart from a couple that we couldnt shoot. Some of the camera movements that we wanted to use we couldnt as they didnt look right and didnt make sense in the order we wanted them, so some of the shots had to be altered to fit our scenario better. Overall i think our storyboard helped us alot, as we could go into filming without having a lot to think about and as we had decided on the structure and the way we would film it we could film it without worrying about what we would have to do next.
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