Our idea meets the brief by following the scene we got set 'A character opens the a door, crosses a room and sits down on a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue' we had to create a story line and add dialogue to he scene our story line was' A rebellious child has been discharged from a juvenile detention centre and is being forced to go to counselling sessions, where he displays aggressive, destructive and intolerable behaviour, along with a lot of attitude.
our story line meets the brief as it includes the match on action that takes place by the door and it also does not break the rule of thirds, when anyone came on camera we made sure that there eyes was on the grid and we made sure that each character was following the rule of thirds, we also made sure that we followed the rule of 180, where we had to make sure that we didn't cross the imaginary line.
When filming we had to remember that we were being marked on our match on action, so my group decided instead of opening the doo with your hands on the handle we decided to kick the door open therefore making it more of an entrance. The match on action was the troubled student kicking the door down, whilst on the inside the councillor is waiting for the him. We did this by panning Brandon's feet kicking the door and then filmed it from Zuha's view of which is when the door is opened and he is walking through.
We also did a invisible cut whereby we used a completely different room when the door was being kicked in and the room that he walks into is the room we did all of our filming, and invisible cut is when the audience doesn't know that its happened, this was very hard to incorporate into our scene.
We were also being marked on the rule of thirds, we had to make sure that any character that came on screen followed this rule their eyes had to be on the grid , this rule is important because this ensured that the face was in focus and that it also showed that we knew how to use it correctly.
The last technique we are getting marked on is the 180 degree rule, which is hard because it can be broken very easily, we had to make sure that each shot we did, did not break the rule and if we did break the rule we had to re-film it , here as you can see the 180 degree is taking place to Brandon's left which is Zuha's right and the imaginary line isn't broken.
When we was filming we used a different types of editing techniques such as cuts, tilts and panning, all theses shots came in useful as these techniques makes the shot look neater and less confusing for the audience.
We used the cuts when we were going from one scene to another for example when we did the student being videoed and being watched by the government we also used the cuts when going to one character to another for example when the troubled boy comes in and the camera cuts to the Councillors face.
we had to do cuts to make it have a easy smooth transition from one scene to another, the reason we did this type of edit in there was to show that the student in the footage was being watched over.
When we panned we were panning the students feet kicking the door down, we panned him walking towards the door then creating the action. The reason we decided to pan his feet walking towards the door was to build up an atmosphere to what was going to happen.
We had to make sure we included a shot reverse shot this shot is when you start off with one character and go to another and end the shot on the same person so the order should go 1 2 1, in our scene we did that with Zuha and Brandon. The shot reverse shot starts with Brandon and goes to Zuha then ends on Brandon.
Shot 1: Brandon Insulting Zuha
Shot 1: Brandon again
When we had to edit the footage using computers we used iMovie this was the program we used to edit our footage, we had to import all our footage and cut down the scenes that needed to be and we also had to make sure that our match on action was done properly to do this we used precise editor this was to make sure that it was smooth and looked good it was also to make the match on action look less confusing for the audience so they could clearly see when the match on action happens.
If we had a footage whereby is was to long we would you the trimmer where it would cut down the footage to how long you would like it to be. We have to make sure that our footage doesn't go over a minuet as our time frame is our scene has to be 30-60 seconds in total a minuet it cannot be any longer than that.
The aim of this brief was to show that we got the understanding of a 180 degree rule and the rules of thirds and it was to also show that we understood how the match on action worked, this is what we were to show in this task to show that we knew how to use it and how it worked in the filming
process.
Whilst filming we had a lot of challenges to get through such as using the dolly when, because when we were filming Brandon walking the dolly made the camera shake and wasn't very stable it affected the picture on the camera so if we were to redo this bit again I would use tracks as they would keep the dolly stable and stop it from shaking, We also encountered a problem with the rule of 180 degree we broke this rule a few times and had to re-film it and correct the mistakes we had made.
Our overall strengths were the rule of thirds as we had made sure that everyone was on the grid and we also filmed extra footage which we did well because they came in very useful such as the scene when Zuha is typing on the computer it was an extra shot to show that Brandon is a project he has to be watched, overall our camera language was good but if we had enough time we would've made our camera language a lot sharper and perfect.
Overall I would improve the camera language and vary the shots a little more I would improve it to make it look more interesting and id also make sure that the editing is done a little more sharper and neater, I would improve a few of the shots, I would work on the camera techniques and make it look more professional and tided up.
If I was to also do this again I would of chosen a different location and used an adult to play the councillor as it would look more realistic, rather than a student playing a teacher, I would also used a room that didn't have too much lighting.
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