katie smyth - the faith room

This is a good location to shoot our film (the white room) as it is a white room. We will move the curtain and not shoot the window in it.

Composition Exercise

One strength of this film is that we understood the 180 degree rule well, which looks effective. Having a clear storyboard helped us well to shoot the right clips and to know what shot we had to do. A weakness that we had was on one shot we had to hold the tripod at an angle to look over the side, which resulted in the camera shaking slightly, which doesn't look as professional.  

Chariss- All Saints Church

This was an idea for the part where the three actress' were chanting, but we then decided to cut this bit out. Also the only problem with this location, is that we would have to use the sun/moon light, so this may effect our filming. However i think this location would of been a good location to use.

Chariss- All Saint Church

Alison's photograph for assessment film

I decided to have this location as a idea for our film because at night it's very dim lighting which fits in with the film that we have to copy, and also it's an abandoned old tennis court in the middle of some fields which gives a scary feel. I know this location well because it is at my old secondary school so i know it is open to the public 24/7. 

Continuity Exercise

We think our continuity exercise went well, apart from our small mistake where we did not follow the 30 degree rule. We had learnt about the 30 degree rule, but while filming we forgot to take this rule on board, as when Alison is approaching Chariss, there is a jump shot. We have learnt from our mistakes and will now pay more attention to follow this rule. Overall we worked as a team and enjoyed our task.

4th october 2011

Today we learnt how to avoid continuity mistakes. The camera should stay within the 180 degree line, and should not change the camera angle less than 30 degrees. Also another technique we learnt was how to was the reverse shot and master shot and also we learnt how to match the eyeline to ensure that the direction of characters gazes stays the same.