PLANNING: PRELIMINARY EXERCISE

Continuity task: filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room, sitting down in a chair opposite another character with whom she/he exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180% rule.


Preliminary Exercise
In the last couple of lessons I and 3 other people Matt, Josie and Callum Gethin-Barkway created a short film in order to learn the basics of filming and editing. When filming we used the technique shot reverse shot as it was an essential part to the Preliminary exercise.
The plot was a man trying to smuggle fruit into Australia but the Australian security guard was not allowing it. We edited the film on Imovie, we tried adding a variety of different sound effects such as footsteps but unfortunately it did not fit.

We imported the footage from the memory card into iMovie and then placed them into the movie and trimmed each clipping order to remove any unwanted footage. I removed all background noise as we didn't need any of the background noise as it was just people muttering. I was the camera man and was the main editor in this exercise as everybody in my group didn't have any experience with filming and editing however I did, So I had to help them work out the basics and learn how to use a camera and iMovie.