This is our finished preliminary task, with editing, it includes all the shots that we were required to do. Our script was about Rosie and Jim (Tom's idea). Overall, the group thinks that it is a good first attempt and it was a good way of starting because we learnt how to use all the equipment, it gave us experience so that we weren't worried about starting the childrens film. The hardest to edit was the 180 degree rule and the match on action, this is because we only had one camera, so we had to film each bit separately with one camera instead of at the same time with 2 or more camera's. We learnt about what looks good and what doesn't look good. we also learnt more about editing and what the easier ways of editing are.

Our preliminary task

Today we started our work by working on the storyboard.
we changed the initial idea of close-up on the door, and then walking through it, to a close-up of someone looking through the door, giving the impression of that person just about to walk through the door :)

The roles of the group:

• Tom - actor
  
• Bronte - actor
  
• Mark - camera man
• Chris - director

Camera techniques that we will use:

• establishing shot
  
• close-up shot
• match on action shot
  
• reaction shot
  
• long shot
• filming a conversation
  
• the 180 degree rule
  

the purpose of the task is to familiarise everyone in the group with the equipment which we will use, and prove that we are reliable and sensible, so we can be trusted to use the equipment in the future. It will also give use more understanding of how the equipment works so that when it comes to making our children's film, we will be more aware of how to use the camera.

THE SCRIPT:

Bronte: Hi Tom, how are you??
Tom: Not bad,did you hear about Rosie and Jim?
Bronte: No, what about them?
Tom: They live in a boat?!
Bronte:Oh my God, a boat? Really...?
Tom: I know, it's so weird!

END

evaluation of the lesson:

• we have finished the storyboard
• completed the script
  
• decided who is playing specific roles i.e Mark-camera man