Preliminary

Before it was possible to start the research a preliminary short clip had to be created. It was made by me (charley millard) and the other person in the group; george mattock. We new we had to take into account all the shots we used to make it move as smooth as possible so we ensured there was a quick run through before hand.

The shoot had a very basic criteria, we had to envolve diologue between two people after one of them walking through a door and sitting down. The preliminary had to consist of one match on action shot which we used from when george was walking through the door to then changing shot to inside the room and seeing him continue walking. We also had to incorperate a shot reverse shot which we used during the diologue between George and our other actress Melanie.

As there is only the two of us and a lack of people to act in our film around at this precise time we ensured the film would run smoothly by doing many run throughs and predicting how it would look on tape. This wasn't as challanging as we first thought it would be and infact took us little time to film and edit.

The editing was fairly easy as our clips already ran very smooth, so it only needed a little bit of editing. There are a few mistakes that we have taken into account for when we do our major project. 1 example of this is the tripod we had was very stiff and as you can see at the beginning of the clip it jerks as we couldn't pan smoothly. Also after George says his first bit of diologue he looked up to the camera, this was impossible to edit it out as it would have editted out his speach.

Realising all these things from our preliminary will help us ensure they dont happen in our final project. We will have to ensure we have out actors and costumes ready on the day have no problems to shoot. Also we will have to ensure that the equipment we have is up to good standard so this cant effect it in any way. The final thing we will have to take into account is ensureing that we do enough takes to ensure we get the best possible results, this way if something goes wrong we will have other options.