Jess' evaluation

During this preliminary exercise I learnt how to use the college cameras, how to attach them to tripods and upload and edit our film. We used Final Cut Express to edit our video, I've learnt how to cut out the bits I want, and shorten them to cut out other people talking or a loud door closing.

In class we learnt about match on action. In this preliminary task we put these into practice. First the match on action shot was added. We used a close up of Jazz's hand then matched the action from the otherside of the door as she opened it and walked in. This helps the flow of the scene, here it meant you don't see Jazz's back to the camera because she doesn't have to walk infront of the camera, she is captured from another angle.

We learnt about the 180 degree rule aswell. We also put this to practice in the preliminary task. The 180 degree rule refers to an imaginary line between the actors on set and the cameras. In order to achieve this I filmed all of Abi's lines, then all of Jazz's seperately keeping the camera on an imaginary line just angleing it diagonally onto the actor accordingly. When cut together it formed a conversation it cut out all awkward pauses that would of occured if I had filmed one line from Abi then the next line from Jazz and so on.

I think this task prepared me well, I wont have to faff around learning to use the camera which would waste filming time, I now know how to use the Final Cut Express programe efficiently and with confidence which may save time later as I can go straight into using it, and I wont have to worry about what button will do what. I am now more confident with filming the tougher camera shots like match on action and the 180 degree rule as i have atempted these shots and now not worried about finding them difficult or doing them wrong. The other shots we used seemed pretty obvious to shoot and they were easy but time consuming.