Preliminary task evaluation.

For our Preliminary Task we chose to film in the school library because we could film within school without being interrupted. The library also suits what we had to do as we wanted to shoot a character opening a door, entering a room, sitting down and having a brief conversation with another actor. We began the scene with an actor pushing open a door and entering the room, we used a medium shot to show this action, however to achieve a 'Match on action' shot we should have had a close upshot showing the first characters hand pushing open the door.

We used a range of shots such as Medium shots such as the one showing the character walking on the other side of the glass, not only does the camera pan in the direction that he is walking, which helps show that the character is heading to a location, but it also zooms out enabling to have a clearer view of the current location. This shot is continued until the main character is nearing the door, where it then cuts to a shot showing the character opening the door. It was at this point that we should have changed the shot again, adding in a split second clip showing a close-up of the character placing his hand on the door handle, followed by him pushing it open; this would have helped us achieve 'Match on Action,' if we could do this scene again that’s one of the major aspects that we'd change.

Another shot we used was an over the shoulder, we used this during the brief conversation between the two characters to give the viewers the impression that they were there during the clip. This shot also helps the viewer see that a conversation is taking place.

The speeds of the cuts a relatively fast, which normally is used to speed up the pace of a scene, a fight scene is a perfect example. However this is where we went wrong, as I didn’t know how to change the cut speed on Adobe Premier Elements 10, which is something I took the time to research in order to allow me to change it in the future.

Overall i don't think this task went very well as it was all quite basic, hopefully in our opening two minutes we will show a higher range of skills.