Preliminary Excersize.

I found that the pre Liminary excersize more challenging than I had thought it would be. I had already used a camera before and the requirments seemed easy enough. however you would be suprised with how much you can forget, using a camera isn't like riding a bike. We also had a lot more things to think about with the making and editing of the piece. These include 180 degree rule, match on action and continuety editing.

We had gotten the cameras and desided to film in our calss room. We had our story board to refure to and evrything was planned, But the opperation of the camera was tricky. i had forgotten how to make sure our shot was level, how to tilt the camera and other little things that we needed in order to get the shots we wanted. Luckily the hero of the group Jack was there to ease our pains.

Operating the camera was a long forgotten worry when i was eventually standing infront of it. ( i wasnt just helping with the camera work i was also an actor in the excersize). i found it almost impossible to not make mistakes, causing us to waist time and film at least 5 takes of each shot.

There was a hitch during the filming. In our story board we had mis understude the idea of match on action which meant we had to do some rethinking and film some extra shots, but we handled it very well and with ease in my view. We almost had problems with the 180 degree rule untill Ms Williams stept in to look over what we had done.

In all i think we wroked well as a group and produced a coherent piece of work. I really enjoyed it.