Preliminary Task & Evaluation

The storyline involves two girls who are willing to fight over money. This leaves both of them furious, over the unresolved issue causing one of the girls to give the other an unwelcoming, dirty look.

When a character is viewing something off screen, what they are viewing is seen by the other character in the following shot; this called an eye-line match shot. 

Also, shot, reverse shot is used in this clip. As the two characters argue, the camera angle is transitioned to focus on the talking character, as well as the other character's response. This is used frequently throughout out short clip, especially when the characters are speaking to one another. 

In addition, a match-on-action shot is used at the beginning of the short clip. When a character starts an action, you see them continue to pursue their action in the next shot; this is called an match-on-action shot. An example of this is when the character is seen arriving at the door, and then opening it; then the following shot is her walking through and closing the door.

Furthermore, as we were filming we had to be award of the 180 degree rule; it is a basic guideline that says that two characters in the same shot or scene should maintain the same left or right side of one another. 

Despite uploading this particular video, we had an incident where our first initial footage sound was not working perfectly. This is the fault of the equipment and not our own, we were able to resolve the problem by simply starting over. It allowed us to have even more experience with the camera and it's elements. 

The shots that were done particularly well and were relatively successful. The hair, costume, make up, props and mise-en-scene was kept the same throughout. On the other hand to improve it we could haves pursued a graphic match shot to make an even better short clip. A graphic match shot is when e.g. a bone is thrown in the air by an ape and then turns into a space station (Space Odyssey, 2001). We could film a hand sliding papers on the table, which turns into money as it slides into another hand. Following that, making sure that the camera is completely leveled and avoiding any irrelevant sounds interfering with out film and making sure the edit is neat.