Preliminary Task

During the preliminary task we were give instructions as to what shots we had to do. We had to 're-create' a small film. We did this task so we knew how to use all the equipment we needed, including the camera and how to do the types of shots we wanted. This made our opening sequence better because we went in knowing how everything worked, and so we didn't need to waste time figuring it out.  

At the beginning, it was hard to film the types of shots we wanted because we weren't used to the camera, however, as time went on, we started figuring out how to use it easily and efficiently. When we had filmed all of the shots we had to, we moved on to editing. For this we used a programme called 'Final Cut Pro'. I was really glad that this task gave me the opportunity to figure out how to use 'Final Cut Pro' because it is a very complicated programme and I needed practice before we had to edit our opening sequence.

Even though we made a few errors in our task, and this meant it wasn't the best we could do, the main reason for doing the task was to practice using all the equipment. We had learned from this task and we knew we mustn't repeat them when it comes to filming and editing our opening sequence

The task was made up of 11 shots:

1. There is a long shot of someone walking down a corridor
2. Then there is a cut to a close up of a hand opening a door
3. Next is a cut to a medium long shot of them walking into a room
4. The next cut is very fast and it is a medium shot of another person sitting at a desk
5. The following cut is to a 2-shot and long shot of the two people in the room
6. There is then a cut to an over the shoulder shot of the person sitting at the desk and a medium close up shot of the person who entered the room and also dialogue: "Can I borrow a DVD?"
7. There is another cut and again, and over the shoulder shot is used but this time of the person who entered the room
8. It then cuts back to the first over the shoulder shot of the person at the desk
9. Another cut goes back to the second over the shoulder shot of the person who entered the room
10. Next there is a cut back to the original over the shoulder shot of the person at the desk
11. The last shot is a cut back to the second over the shoulder shot, it is then ended with a fade out to black.