Preliminary Task - The Video

This is our Completed Preliminary task.

Preliminary Task - What did we do?

The first thing we did in our task was to find a suitable location to film our clip, this was a place were there was a corridor out side the room. We found two rooms which were very similar with location and appearance, and we had to use both of them due to one or the other being occupied due to lessons. While filming we did encounter some problems but other than them the filming went perfectly. some of the problems we encountered were people coming into the shot and bringing in the same clothes for the filming  de to filming on different days.

After gaining all our footage we uploaded it from the camera to the computer and edited the footage on Final Cut Express. While editing we cut down the shots to the parts which we required, and put them in order and kept cutting them till the shots changed smoothly. Then when we had the complete film we uploaded it onto Youtube.  

Preliminary Task - The Brief

For our Preliminary task we had t produce a short clip which follows a script, this script is :

• Character A walks towards a closed door.
• Character A goes through the door and crosses the room to character B.
• Character A&B exchange lines.
• Then either Character A or B leaves the room.

There are also three other things we need to include in our video, theses are:

• Match on Action - This is when a character stars a action in one shot and then you see then continue the action in the next.
• 180 Degree Rule - This is a basic guideline that states that two characters in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship. if the camera crosses the line between the characters this is know as crossing the line.
• Shot/Reverse Shot - This is when you have the camera on one character while they are talking and this switches from character to character depending on who's talking  

Source Code - Duncan Jones (2011) - Editing (Trailer)

The Trailer for Source Code has overall about over a hundred edits, they had done this man to to make the film seem fast pace action packed thriller.Also by showing little short clips ths creates suppence and makes the audience want to know more about what is going on and to find out the whole picrure of the story.

Mise-on-scene of Casin Royale

In one lesson we watched the opening sequence of Casino Royale, and we were asked to analyze the two parts of scene which is the office and public toilet scene and pick out the aspects of mise-on-scene in these two scenes. My Evaluation to the mise-on-scene is below the link for the clip.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNvzNWuzI9Y

During the office scene where bond is reveled, he is sitting down in a chair and his body language shows he is very relaxed and slightly mysterious. He comes across as mysterious due due to how he sits in the dark shadows of the room, with his face half lit by the light. Also his facial expressionis is slightly confident and this does not change through the entire time of the scene even after he shoots the other character.