Practice Filming 1

On Thursday 23rd October 2008 we did our practice filming but because of technical difficulties it is not possible to upload a copy of our first practice filming. This is due to a fault with the camera. Never the less we managed to learn a lot from out first practice filming

I think that our first practice filming went quite well we didn't we didn't brake the 180 degree rule. I feel that we worked well as a group with organizing and communicating whilst doing our practice filming. This will be very useful to us when we come to do the real thing, as it is important that we communicate, be organized and work effectively as a team as this way we will get the best possible outcome. Our camera control and our use of the camera as a whole were very well done and hence effective because of this. Never the less a couple of the panning shots could of been smoother as they were quite shaky and a bit to fast. The shot in which we had to see the person walking through the door however became a bit tricky and we had to re-do this a couple of times as we could not get it quite right.


The idea of doing this practice filming task was to introduce us to using a camera and to show us how it works. I feel that we did manage to learn a lot form this task and that it will be beneficial to us when we do our real filming. From this practice we learnt that using ourselves as actors wasn't a very good idea as we weren’t very good actors and more prominently when it comes to filming the real thing we will need all of us to work together as a close team in order to make our final piece realistic and successful. So we decided that the best idea would be to find drama students to take on the role of our actors so that it s easier for us to work together.

Finally, I think that there are also some other improvements that could be made in our practice filming. To begin with our editing was not to the highest of standards as we made some of the clips too long. It could have been a lot smoother and more effective. What did not help with our editing was that the editing software was very new to most of us and so therefore we didn’t no how to use it very efficiently or effectively and so we worked at a slower pace. However we soon started to learn how to use it and began to work quicker. Introducing us to this editing software was also a good idea to include in the practice filming task as we have not used it before and so getting some practice will ensure that when we come to producing our final piece we will be more experienced and know what we are doing.