Prelim log - production

Prelim log- Production

We had a few problems which occurred whilst filming our prelim. Some of these problems were little mistakes but some were vital to the prelim task. The first error we had when trying to film was that the lesson we had decided it would be ideal to film in, was the lesson where there was no empty classrooms available for us to use. We did eventually find one room which we thought would work and be useful; however we soon realised that the room didn’t have a door so we were unable to film in this classroom as we wouldn’t have been able to complete the match on action shots which was a crucial to the prelim task. By the time we had worked that out it was nearly the end of the lesson so we had to decide to do it the next day in a different classroom. Once we had found a room the next day we started to film however we soon saw that the camera was a bit bright due to the windows not having blinds and the lighting in the rooms were also very bright so we changed the direction of the way the camera was facing, once we had watched the clips back before editing.

 If we did this task again then we would definitely make sure that we were more of aware of the lighting setbacks we had so the time filming wasn’t as much in a rush as it was.  When we were watching the clips that would soon become our prelim task, back we also realised that the camera man moved the camera from vertical to horizontal to make sure both characters could fit in the two shot however by doing this it affected the continuity editing as it jumped from shot to shot which looked really bad. The match in action shot was a nightmare to get right and we would for sure make sure that we had more time filming so the match on action was as good as it could be. The filming took a lot more time than we expected, we assumed that it wouldn’t take that long to film and that the editing would take more time than the filming therefore we had to rush filming which meant we overran the filming time by a little bit so if we could re-do our prelim task I would definitely make sure time management was much better so it didn’t have to be rushed.  Another something we learnt from the prelim task was to make sure that the camera is held the same way throughout the filming. We will bare this in mind for our main thriller task so it doesn’t have to be like our prelim task and have to be re-filmed several times. Therefore this would be our main focus for our main task to make sure time is not wasted of re-filming and that shooting is over and done with as soon as possible so the editing will be our main worry throughout. Time management has been our biggest lesson learnt whilst completing the prelim task.