Preliminary Task Evaluation

Yesterday we filmed the preliminary task and typically my group was in N04 so we didn't have some of the resources the others had (a great excuse if the clip is bad though :)). In the task we had to film what was in the storyboard provided for us- a man going through a door and having a conversation with a woman consisting of something like "do it come on" "no i can't", we wanted to film the sequence in a wideshot so we set the camera up at the back of the room. To do this we had to make sure we bubbled the tripod to make sure it was level and check the tape was in (which it was but the screen was coming up saying it wasn't but we got that fixed and continued with shooting the wideshot. Here, we had to fix the shot so that the lighting wasn't shown in it but we still got the whole scene. We all took turns in our roles for different shots so by the time we finished shooting, we all ended up setting the camera up, calling "standby, Rolling, Action, cut" and pressing the recording button. We had the set to the left of the room and we had the light source rigged up on the righthand side. It was effective in lighting up the actors, however it left an unnatural circle of light on the floor which i think was caught on camera. It would have looked better if there was a light source coming through from the left hand side but there wasnt enough space in the room to do that without capturing it on camera. we tried to create the same effect on set using a normal lamp but it flared up on the camera so we didn't end up using it which was a shame because it created great shadows.
After the wideshot we went straight on to the over the shoulder shot of the male actor. We should have filmed all our shots more than once in order to be able to choose the best clip from each shot but we started late and quickly moved on from each one. To make the man look powerful in the overshoulder shot we filmed the shot at a low angle. We shot the over the shoulder twice because in the first clip, Stef (who was the female actress) blocked Pointer who we were trying to film. To fix this we had to move the camera slightly right and retake the shot.
In all the shots we had to think about the 180 degree rule and made sure that when each shot was filmed, the camera didn't cross the line.