Prelim log -Pre production

Pre-production

The first thing we had to do was pick our groups to work in when filming. We figure we need to have trust worthy people in our group to make sure we all do a fair amount of work and balance it out between us all. This is important because it will not cause any conflict and with good cooperation and teamwork we would work better. We did some research on the shots and editing we had to use into our prelim task. They were match on action, shot reverse shot and the 180 degree rule. These were important as it allows us to show our skills with filming and editing to portray a video clip. When we began to plan our prelim project we watched back examples of previous students’ prelim videos.  We learnt about the different editing and camera shots we could use in our own one to experiment as well as the compulsory shots we were set. All the videos were very different situations and it showed us what we could do with our own to make it interesting. The year 13 students came in to give us advice on filming and editing. They told us to watch out for reflections on windows and doors because that will affect the video by possibly showing the camera which will affect marks. We made sure that when picking a room it would not be by a window to avoid the situation with reflections. The year 13s also told us to allow enough time to edit because it will take longer than filming itself. We decided to think of an idea straight away so we could start filming as soon as possible to start the editing quickly. iMovie was suggested to us for an editing software so Sophie downloaded it on her phone so it was all ready for when we needed to use it for our prelim task. The year 13s also said it is better to film too much than not enough. This will become useful because if we went back and realised a shot was no good we would have to shoot the shot again and the weather could be different which will affect the continuity of the clip. We then worked on a storyboard of our prelim as shown in the next post. A story board is important when planning to film as it keeps you more organised and everything is planned before you shoot. This was useful as we were not thinking ideas as we went along which could cause conflict between the group and when we were all sat down and discussing it was a lot better to plan and organise our prelim.