Preliminary task

Preliminary Task

The task was set. Create a short film in which you create a piece with the knowledge of film making you already have learnt. So we set about creating a film. We had 5 hours to plan, Shoot and edit the piece. we went with a action thriller style and used a GE DV1 Pocket Digital Camcorder. This was a good camcorder but did not create a imagery in which we desired. We used Apple's Imovie to edit the piece.

Here it is:

Things we took from doing this activity. The use of a tripod is vital, shaking hands create shaky shots  which in turn pull the focus away from the action on screen. Using Imovie was good although the limited functionality was a problem as editing was not as versatile as we needed. Planning the shots was not a massive part of this task though with the shots we planned the shooting took less time. We created a piece in which we where almost happy with and with some changes to the process we could have a piece we would be happy to hand in as a final film opening.