Preliminary Task Evaluation

Our preliminary task was shot in the studio which to me was the most appropriate and useful location to film in because of the made-up set which made it more realistic.
At the beginning of the task I felt a bit awkward and a bit self-conscious about talking to the actors in a "bossy" manner, but as it went on I realised how there was a limit of time and that it had to be done, therefore I tried to take part in it as much as possible: I helped the actors with their lines and positioning them to get the same shot every time. The role that I played mostly was the director.

Lighting:
In the studio, there is one bright light right in the middle of the set which gave a hard effect which was adapted to the scene we were doing, and because there is a window in the set, there was a white light on the outside of it to show daytime.
The importance of lighting is the effect and feel the it gave to the scene. The light in the middle helped outline the actors and create a sharpness to it.
Personally, I thought that there was a lack of shadows and the light might have been too revealing.

Filming:
There were no problems with the camera and it was set up correctly and up-straight. I did not work much on the camera however I checked mostly the continuity of the frames in order to get the same actions every shot. We bubbled the tripod, this means that we get the tripod exactly into level. We checked if our angles were right and by using a storyboard, we easily put into place what shots we had to do in order. We started off with a long-shot to then move to an over the shoulder shot on both actors in order to get a view of both them. We also used a third actor who played a dead body in-between them to make sense to the lines and have more effect on the shots. We continued by doing some close-ups. Since we had one more shot of our own choice, we decided to do a shot from the top of the ladder to make it look like a crane-shot. The 180 degrees rule was hard to avoid since we were working on a fixed set which had only three walls.
We made use of the terminology to make sure that everyone knew when and what to say or do. "Stand by", everyone gets ready, "role camera" everyone has to be in position and camera starts recording for five seconds until "action" is said and the scene starts. After the scene is done the director is supposed to wait five seconds and then say "cut"; this is when the camera is completely stopped.