Preliminary Task

For our preliminary task in AS Media Studies it was to film and edit a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, and then the two characters had to exchange a couple of lines of dialogue. We decided to film it in a dark and damp place that brought a grungy vibe to the piece of film as we were filming a "drug deal". In the task we had to display different features of filming this included:

~The 180 Degree Rule
~Match-on-action
~Shot/Reverse shot

Below I will explain which each of these terms mean...

The 180 Degree rule is a filming guideline that states that the two characters in the shot must maintain the same left/right relationship to one another.

Match-on-action is another filming term that means when editing the piece of film, the editor cuts from one shot to another that matches the original shots action.

Shot/Reverse shot lastly means where one character is shown looking at another character, and then the other character is shown looking at the first character.

Overall the film that we shot was of a supposed "drug deal", so to make the piece of film look as close to the real thing as possible we decided to film it in the darkest and groggiest place we could find, in the school boiler room. The location had the opportunity of having manmade light from the lights in the room but it also had a natural light that wasn't very bright, which is what we wanted as we wanted to maintain the dark, edgy setting.
The casting for the film was fairly straight forward, we asked our friend Lizzie, who took drama at GCSE to become the "drug dealer" as we thought that her established drama persona would bring across the role very well. To add to this we added our other friend Erin to become the person who wanted the "drugs", although she didn't take drama, she's a natural born drama queen and grew into the role just as we expected.
The equipment that we used included a camera to film it, so that the film was steady we used a tripod to ensure that the transition between individual shots were fluent and smooth. By doing this it improved the whole quality of the film.
The editing of the piece of work is still in the processing and this will be updated once it is finished.

If we were to do this again, to improve I would say that we could spend more time with the actual filming as we only had a limited time to actually film the individual shots, and because of this when we were editing some clips it was slightly jumpy, and didn't have a complete smooth transition between shots.

Lastly to set up this blog was the last challenge! To be honest it was quite straight forward with all the instructions being clearly stated and just having to sign in with my already existing gmail account and I was up and raring to go and ready to customise my blog to my very own liking. Although not perfect yet, the blog will always be updating in the way it looks and how its actually set up, and as I learn to use the blog in more depth and detail the quality of the content I'm producing will improve greatly, so just hold on it's only a matter of time.