Preliminary Task

For the preliminary task, we went up to the editing suite to see the three media teachers Matt, Matt and Mark who showed us a basic storyboard which involved different camera shots and dialogue.

We were then split up into three different groups and we would either film in the media suite, the studio or the media classroom. I worked with Hannah and YiXuan in the media classroom, but we all wanted to be on the camera so in order to get an actor and actress, we went up to the Private Study room and asked if anybody would like to film with us if they weren't too busy. Luckily one guy named Thomas was willing to help but none of the girls were available so Hannah offered to act instead.

When we went back to the classroom, we needed to figure out how we were going to set the room and the idea that we were going to use for the dialogue to work. As our first shot needed to be a wide shot, we needed to reset the room because all of the tables were clumped together and it was blocking the shot. We decide to clear all of the tables except for three. One table was used with the teachers chair as the main desk and the other two were just in front so that it gave the illusion of a full classroom.

After we set up the room, we made sure that the camera was level using the spirit level, set it up at the right height, focused the camera and white balanced the camera.

Once everything was in place and the camera was ready, we made sure that Thomas and Hannah knew their lines and set them up into positions which would have to be as close to the original image as possible.