Preliminary Exercise
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
This is the preliminary exercise for my foundation portfolio. This exercise is set to a brief which included a character walking through a door, approaching another character, exchanging an item and a few lines of dialogue.
The main difficluties we faced while doing this project were firstly the sound. In ours it is poor because we didnt not adjust the music manually or use the headset, we atempted to change the sound level while editing but it really work very well. Another problem we encoutered was that when we came to editing we realised that we didnt have as much footage as we first realised, this therefore made the exercise a bit shorter than anticipated. The final problem was we had to refilm some of it again as costumes changed, as we filmed it over a space of a few days.
On the other hand there were lots of good points about it. There was a variety of shot types, most notably a shot reverse shot which we were told would be very appropiate for this preliminary exercise, another good point of the piece is the close up on the hand pulling the chair back , this shows a high level of camera work and helps the piece flow from one mini sequence to another. We also included a fade at the end, this made the ending a lot smoother and easier on the eye.