Friday 13th Meeting

On Friday we had to do a preliminary exercise.We had to experiment with the camera and do a little scene using lots of different camera shots. We needed to show we that we understood and could work with:

- Continuity; where a character always looks the same to show smooth and realistic transitions between various shots.- Shot/Reverse shot; where the camera capture two character exchanging dialogue to produce a conversation- The 180-degree rule; When shooting a scene, the camera must always be in the same position so when editing everything from the characters to the background surrounding will be moving in the same direction in different shots.

Neelam was working the camera but we all worked together to decide on the shots we used. We used long shots, pans, CUs, ECUs and POVs. It was going really well until we nearly finished and then relised that we hadn't changed our tape over so we need to re-record our scene again. Although it sort of annoyed us that we had done all that work for nothing, we don't mind re-doing it because it was fun and now we have a good idea of what we are doing we can act out abit better and experiment with a few more shots. I can't wait to edit it!