Preliminary exercise

We had to get into groups of 3 to do have our first attempt at filming which was our Preliminary Exercise which we had to do film someone walking down the corridor into a room and sit down and have a small conversation with someone else whiles keeping the rules of thirds. This was only a 30 second to 1 minute clip using 6-9 shots. This was just a simple exercise so we could get use to using the equipment and to get to look back it to see our mistakes or how to improve it. We had been taught the 180 degree line rule so we used this in this exercise so we could see how it worked. Whiles when we were filming we got to use different angle shots and distance. Also got to see which looked better and got to get use to using a camera as this was the first time I had used a proper filming camera. Also I acted in it as well so I had to do the shots that I wasn’t in for example when the other actor was walking down the corridor when I wasn’t in shot I filmed a close up of her feet and also when she opened the door. This experienced helped us a lot on editing and filming and the next time we filmed we would know what we were doing as this told us what we did wrong and how we could have improved it.