Preliminary Task

The main objective of the preliminary task was to get ourselves familiar with the equipment and the variety of camera techniques that could be used in our film. While filming our short clip, we were able to experiment with the different functions of the camera, different camera angles and techniques allowing us to learn along the way the possible difficulty's we could face when filming the opening of our thriller film.

One lesson we learnt by carrying out our preliminary task is the '180 degree rule'. As we were unable to successfully use it in the preliminary task, we can now be more careful so this mistake could not be repeated while filming our final piece.

Overall i believe our preliminary task proved a success, although we were not accurate in using all the techniques, our mistakes made us more aware of what could go wrong so we are now able to plan ahead when we starting filming for our final piece. During the task we carried out 'over the shoulder' shots, tracking shots and mid-shots.