CLASSWORK: Preliminary exercise

Preliminary exercise

On Monday 25th September myself, Richie, Tom and Max filmed a short film opening about a pizza delivery that goes wrong, we used a Cannon 750D and a Manfrotto tripod. I learnt to bubble the tripod which means making sure the camera is level using the built-in spirit level. The opening involves me walking to the door of where Richie and Tom were inside. I was suspiciously holding a pizza box. I then proceeded to knock on the door and Richie opened it and said, "Come in". Then there was a pan shot around the room and Tom said "You got the stuffed crust" and I said "Yeah I do" in an New York style Italian accent and then there was a close up of me revelling what was actually under the pizza box and it was a gun. I then shot Tom, then there was a stand-off between me and Richie to which I said "Put the Gun Down Rick."

A challenge that we faced in the filming process was that there was not enough room to do a proper establishing shot and we needed to do this because we wanted to introduce Tom as a very high ranked character and a way that we thought would do this would be by a establishing pan shot and we didn't have enough room in our first location to do this so we moved locations to the male changing rooms and then we managed to move the benched from the corner of the room to a more central location so our cameraman managed to get into the corner to film this and we managed to get the right shot.

A pizza delivery takes place. Person A delivers the pizza to person B.
Shot types and camera movements to include:

·                tracking shot of person A on the way.

·                pan as person A enters room.

·                Over the shoulder shot to show person B greeting / talking

·                over the shoulder shot to show person A's response

·                shot reverse shot to show person B

I had to show that I could:

·                Use a tripod to keep shots steady (bubble the tripod).

·                Focus the camera. 

·                Take care of the camera and tripod.

·                Observe the 180 degree rule.  

·                Edit the sequence to make meaning clear.

·                add titles / sound to the edit.

During the task I did:

• ·       A faded transition at the start. I did this by dragging the “cross dissolve transition from the menu to the start of the edit. As shown in the picture.

• ·       Trimmed the clips to a suitable length to ensure the viewers won’t get bored
• ·       Added some suspenseful action film music as a backing track
• ·       Added gunshots for realism
• ·       Put a section in slow motion to add effect by highlighting the sounds and selecting the speed as slow

• ·      Ended with a suspenseful gunshot with instant black screen which leaves the audience with the question… WHO SHOT WHO?