Preliminary exercise

This was my groups Preliminary exercise. Billy Cove and Myles Wilson are the actors in it while myself and Jessica Wallin Directed the scene.

We firstly made a storyboard of what we was to film. We decided that the scene would be of person A (Billy) walking into a room to find person B(Myles), and A would declare their love for person B, who would the walk out on person A.

In the scene we used diegetic sound, such as the dialogue ad the door closing, as well as a range of shots. A long shot was used at the start to show the setting, point of view shots of both characters, as well as midshots to show their facial expressions clearly and so show they're emotions, and to show this from the characters' position. A close ups was also used when person A leans against the door to show the pain and upset on their face of being left.

We then as a groups edited the video, and added the opening credits.

There were some mistakes with the video, the shots f the characters faces when they were talking before person B got up were blurry as the camera was too close to the actors, and so when the camera zoomed it it distorted the image. This also happened near the end of the video when the camera zoomed into person A's face. The editing was also jumpy when person B stands up, and at the end when person A leans against the door. This is mainly due to the fact we have had limited use of the editing software, Final cut express. However, as we will be using the software frequently, we will improve and so out editing skills will continue to develop.