Preliminary Task - Miss Georgiou

In our group we have Myself, Nathaliah Makki and Leandra Saunders. I was the camera man because i was sure thats what my job would be in the thriller clip as that is my strength. Nathaliah and Leandra were the two main characters exchanging dialogue, with Leandra being the character walking into the room and leaving as well.

The purpose of the preliminary task is to experiment with the camera with different camera angles to try and film a short 1minute film on someone walking into a room and leaving the room and exchanging a short dialogue. I believe it is good to do a preliminary task because it will help with the thriller clip, because we will become familiar with acting in front of a camera and i will become more familiar with using the camera. Also because the group was randomly put together we had never met before, so by doing the preliminary task we was able to get to know each other better and become more comfortable with each other, so when it comes to the actual thriller we will be able to act better and feel more comfortable acting in front of each other.

Before we started filming we had to discuss what we was going to talk about. We made a small spider diagram to give us some ideas, because the clip wasn't very long it did not take long for us to decide what to talk about. In the clip the two girls are talking about what they are having for lunch. Once the conversation is over Leandra walks out the room.

We had to use a variety of camera angles, so when the scene starts Leandra walks in the room and i used a panning shot to follow her as she walks into the room and to show the surroundings. As they both sit down a mid - shot is used so you can see both actors when they are in conversation. 

Once we had finished filming we had to edit the clip, there was a lot of parts were it was not filmed correctly or the camera was left running for to long so we had to cut parts of the clip. This will also help when we come to film the thriller because we are more familiar with Final Cut Pro, so when it comes to editing our thriller clip we will know what we are doing and wont have to waste time trying to figure out parts of it or getting our teacher to explain how to use it.