preliminary practice

For my preliminary practice, Dan, Bradley and me had decided to do a short film about a stalker. we hadn't really got a reason for doing this stalker idea as the whole point of the practice was to learn how to use the camera. for the start of the exercise, we had decided that Dan and i would be in the film as Bradley was filming. this didn't mean that only Bradley got to use the camera as Dan and I got to see how to use it.

we had decided to do the film outside of Auburn place as we thought that it wouldn't be that crowded in the bottom floor of the building. the first shot that we had done was a high shot of Dan walking in Auburn place, followed by me. then we did some more of the following just outside Auburn place. we had a few problems here as we needed the area to be clear of students, we also had a problem as we were debating if i was too far away from Dan so you couldn't see me as this shot was a close up of Dan, but we wanted the audience to see me in the background. with the chase sequence we had to do quite a few times, firstly it was because the area had become crowded so that we had to wait for everyone to get out of the way. another problem that we had during this was that i didn't want to run infront of the camera. we had done a few shots of me powerwalking but we decided that the shots didn't look good enough so i had then decided to run during the last shot of the preliminary practice.

During the editing we had decided to have some music in the whole thing. we had done some editing where one of the shots was some quick editing to match some of the music in the piece. we had a very long part at the start where it just said the title, we needed to shorten the time it had the title showing up. we had a few things in the piece where it went from one shot to another but made the piece look like a book that we had decided would be inappropriate. finally we had some credits at the end to show who did what, we had a problem to begin with as the credits went too fast to read.