Preliminary Task

Our Premliminary task was filmed in the old media room above the theater studio. Our Set was very dull and had white walls and discarded furniture as clearly there had been some pre-revonations going on in the old media room. This atmosphere was perfect as it suited the kind of look we need to initiate the theme of mystery in the storyline . Davina's role was to do continuity, to make sure everything was the same in each shot. She watched for small things like which hand the actor used to pick up the suitcase and how many steps she took, so that it would be easier when it came round to editing.We had to add lightining to the room; we used two lights. We did this to try and make it so there was no shadow but we did not have sufficient space to make it completely without shadow. We wanted to have it bright in the actors faces in an high intensity interview type fashion. I do not think it was that effective because we did not have all proper stands and could not the the angle exactly right.Alex was operating the camera in are group. She set up the camera and then both Davina and I checked after to make sure it was correct. After each time we moved the tripod and camera we made sure it was rebubbled. Davina made sure that in each frame you could not see the lighting equipment or our shadows. I used all the angles that were given to us on the story board, and when we added our own we made sure that they added to the story and we not completely random.When filming we did it all in a specific order e.g. shooting all wide shots first, then all over the sholdershots and not in chronological order. Each time we shot from each angle we did the whole scene. At no point did we cross the 180 degree line, we made sure we did not so that the image would not appear flipped to the viewer.I was the director, at the start of each shot I called out, "stand by" the others then responded saying "standing by" to let me know they were ready. After that I called out"roll camera", Alex would then reply "camera rolling" when the camera was ready and finally to start the scene i gave the final call which was 'Action'