Film Preliminary task

For our prelim I had gone in a group and make a short film, it had to involve a man walking across a room, down and have some dialogue. I started looking at some clips of films to get some ideas. But nothing really came so I thought just I would do someone walking in to a room, sitting down talking and playing poker.

The first problem we had was that there was no rooms that we could film in we searched everywhere and eventually got 1 but it took time. We could have got round this by booking a room out or even finding one before. The filming went well and most of the shots were taken in the first few also we had difficult poisons to put the camera like up high in a corner and I had to stand on a filing cabinet to film one of the shots. As well as limited time as well most of the shot were rushed and we should have spread the filming over a few days instead of one lesson. Also there was a shot where the camera pans round the table and we had nothing to go around the table smooth, but we found a wheeled chair and it worked except it was bumpy and uneven. Also made a noise when it went round and you can hear it on the camera and I couldn’t cut it out because there was dialogue. The film took longer to film then expected because some of the séances needed to be changed slightly and re film, also we didn’t have all the right props, so I made cards out of line paper and pretended with them. The filming was good we got everything done and had loads of time to edit it which wasn’t too difficult and didn’t take much time.