Third practical lesson - Filming my prelim.

We had our third practical lesson on 19/06/13. For this lesson we were told to read through an ambiguous script of dialogue shot from different camera angles.The script (shown below) Basically said things like "go on, do it!" which allowed us to do basically whatever we wanted with it because this could be interpreted in various different ways. We had to re-create this script by coming up with our own idea using the script's dialogue and camera shots as a basis. Our chosen idea, was to use the script to showcase a story of someone with bad breath being pressured into eating a piece of gum. Although the idea is ridiculous it worked with the ambiguous script and gave it a bit of a comical element.

We shot from different angles using different shots such as wides, close ups, over the shoulders etc. We also added in some extra shots at the end such as a close up of the gum being slammed on the table.

One thing that we had to change from our original idea was eating the actual gum, as we only had two pieces of gum and it would be difficult as if we got the shot wrong, and we had to re-shoot but did not have another piece of gum... that would be an issue as we would loose our sense of continuity.

Throughout the shoot Carla and Archie remained the actors, but we alternated roles such as the camera man and director. I was the director for the majority as this was my preferred role. 

Filming this prelim was a good learning curve because it allowed us to experience following a script with dialogue and shooting it from different angles. We also learnt helpful things, such as shooting all of the shots that needed to be shot from the same angle at once so that you didn't have to keep on moving the camera around as frequently. This was very useful and saved us a lot of time. For example we shot all of the wide shots first, instead of shooting a wide, then a close up and then another wide as this would require moving the camera back and forth too frequently and it would become impractical and overly time consuming.

Below is a the script we were given.

Prelim storyboard 1

Prelim storyboard 2