Prelim Video.

In our film we used close ups, pan shots, over shoulder shots, two shots, long shots, extreme close ups and point of view shots. We started off with a point of view walking out of a door giving the effect it is the start of a journey. There is then a pan shot which follows our character as he walks out of the building and towards the path. The shot makes it look like it you are watching a person walk past you. This shot is important as it is the first time we see the character. The close of the feet walking makes the character seem dominating, the footage also goes with the music in the background which talks about his shoes when you see them, this gives the audience a clue about what the film is about. The long shot where the character walks right up to the camera before slowly stopping makes the audience know that he has arrived where he set out to go. When the audience see the other character sitting at the table looking towards something near the door, this isn't in the mise-en-scene, this gives them a clue what is happening before the idea is deemed right when the walking character walks into the mise-en-scene and sits down at the table.

In the construction and planning of our film we used a stills camera to make practise shots so we knew what we wanted each shot to look like. We all have good skills with using a camera so this was not a problem. For the filming of the film we used a video camera. We had practise with using the selected camera, although it still took a few times to get the shot right. We tried to zoom in and out of shots during filming and this proved to be difficulty, resulting in poor shots, shaking of the camera or zooming too far in and getting something we didn't want. There is one shot in the film where it is zoomed out and the camera shakes a lot, unfortunately we did not have time to change this. Even with these problems we did not ask or need any help with using the video camera. We used editing technology to edit the film at the end of the project. We used this to get rid of parts of shots that we did not want and put some transitions in between different shots to fade them into each other, the transitions I believe worked well and went smoothly. We put music in the background of the film and it went superbly well with the visual action that happens in the film. Even though we had not used the editing program more than once before we had no major difficulties in using it. We only asked for help with the complicated parts of the program, for example putting subtitles into the film. We then uploaded the film onto 'YouTube' and our blogs without any help apart from the help sheet for what file type the film had to be saved in. Uploading our film onto our blogs was not a problem and we assisted each other with putting it up.

Our final product successfully meets the brief apart from the 180-degree rule, where we broke this once during the conversation. Other than that we had a character that opened a door walked over to his friend, sitting down in a chair and then had a few lines of dialogue with him. We used the match on action rule with the character walking in one shot and in the next is still walking while the camera has changed it's position. We also used a shot/reverse shot during the conversation part of the film where one character is talking to the other character who is not fully in the mise-en-scene.