Media work

Preliminary task
We have made several tasks to ready ourselves for our media cursework. This is the results so far!

This is our preliminary movie, where we try to use match on action, reverse shot reverse and 180 degree rule.

enjoy.

Evaluation

Our task was to take a film of a man walking into a room, sitting down and sharing diagloue with another character. We had to use shot/reverse shot, match on action and the 180 degree rule within this film, to show we could do basic camera moves. This was useful because it meant that we gained expereince using the camera, and trying out some ideas. We also gained expereince about how to oragnise and create a storyboard, which was very useful because we could plan what we were going to shoot, and we had a visual idea of how we wanted the shots to work. This meant that the task was quicker, more organised, and it also let us plan the mise en scene, to see if we were telling the audience what we wanted them to think. This is our photographic storyboard:


This helped us to plan, and to develop the story. However, i found that our shots were quite different to what we decided on the storyboard, and that we needed more planning- such as maybe several revisions of our storyboard to make it easier to follow.
However, we could consider our mise en scene because of the storyboard. The use of not seeing the main chacters face until the middle denotes a film about crime, and the use of a wig, helps to connote comedey. We considered this during our planning stage, and this helped to show the story more efficently.

Doing the actual filming was very fun, and we worked well as a group. It let us get expereince of how to use a camera, and postion it. This let us know what looked good and what didnt. We did a shot where the camera was on it's side; and this looked quite bad, because it was different to all of the other shot- although it was orginal- if we did it again, we now know that we should keep the camera on the same angle, or else it looks odd.(unless we wnat it to look disconcerting, such as in a thriller, or to make it look like a POV. During filming, we managed to use all 3 shot types- shot reverse shot was used when the 2 characters met, match on action was when the protagonist went through the door, and 180 degree shot(s)was used during dialogue. We had to edit this to make it look as though it flowed.