When we filmed our preliminary task we had a few problems, these problems included, when we were filming on the staircase we had people always trying to walk so we had to tell them to wait until we had finished the scene, this was annoying as some people did not listen and walked down with us so we had to then walk to the top of the stairs and start again. Another problem we had with our prelim was that when we went outside to film our voices could not be heard over the wind so we had to dub the voices in later. Also it started to rain so we had to quickly rush all the shots before it rained. The final problem we had was that the camera was slowly running out of batteries and we had none spare so once again we had to make sure our shots were quick and over and done quickly with no out takes.
Our group learnt a lot of lessons from doing our preliminary task, one of these lessons was that we should always make sure that the camera has fresh batteries in them and also we should always bring spare batteries as if we run out on set then it would be very difficult leaving the set and try to find a place that sells batteries. Another lesson we have learnt for the main task is to make sure that nobody speaks in our film as the cameras are not good when it comes to picking up sound so we had to take further measures to make sure our voices could be heard.
I do not think the shooting took long as we did not have to do a lot and as we were used to the camera as we used our own camera. Also as there was a group of us there we all discussed our ideas and then put them onto camera and after we filmed everything it was then up to our group to choose what shots go where and if we needed to re-film anything, but after looking at all the shots we decided that nothing needed changing so then we edited it. Also the main person who actually filmed the shots does photography outside of sixth form it was easier for us as we had his advice on the lighting and the framing of the shot, this helped us a lot as because of this advice we managed to choose a location which had near perfect conditions.
I do not think that our group would change anything that we did for the preliminary task as we worked well together and the final production was a mixture of all our work and not just one person’s ideas. The preliminary task really helped our group as it showed us all that we can all come up with ideas and that our group is capable of creating, filming and editing a piece of work that can become really good.
Our group learnt a lot of lessons from doing our preliminary task, one of these lessons was that we should always make sure that the camera has fresh batteries in them and also we should always bring spare batteries as if we run out on set then it would be very difficult leaving the set and try to find a place that sells batteries. Another lesson we have learnt for the main task is to make sure that nobody speaks in our film as the cameras are not good when it comes to picking up sound so we had to take further measures to make sure our voices could be heard.
I do not think the shooting took long as we did not have to do a lot and as we were used to the camera as we used our own camera. Also as there was a group of us there we all discussed our ideas and then put them onto camera and after we filmed everything it was then up to our group to choose what shots go where and if we needed to re-film anything, but after looking at all the shots we decided that nothing needed changing so then we edited it. Also the main person who actually filmed the shots does photography outside of sixth form it was easier for us as we had his advice on the lighting and the framing of the shot, this helped us a lot as because of this advice we managed to choose a location which had near perfect conditions.
I do not think that our group would change anything that we did for the preliminary task as we worked well together and the final production was a mixture of all our work and not just one person’s ideas. The preliminary task really helped our group as it showed us all that we can all come up with ideas and that our group is capable of creating, filming and editing a piece of work that can become really good.
By Scott Cawkwell
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