Prem Task - Overview

Me, Bethan, Lorna, Saskia, Helena and Holly all helped create "A Soulja To Cry On" We started by creating a story board but this was rushed, so this could have been improved by being more detailed and less rushed. We then picked our location which was at school using one of the english rooms, two corridors and a stair well. We used this location because it was near by and easy to access and we wanted to emphasize our main character (Helena) to be searching for Will by running through various corridors. While filming the clips with a handheld camera we had some trouble with the cameras being 'shaky' because we didn't use a tripod.

We then uploaded the clips; which which we did using the iMovie software (this is explained on my software post) we found that we didn't have the match on action were Helena went through the door, we reshoted this shot and included it in our prelim task.

This short film has a target audience of 12+ and is aimed at teenagers, this target audience is signified in the age of the main characters and the themes used.

Three principle terms:

Match-on-action is a continuity cut which ties two units of the same action together at the same moment in the movement making it seem to continue, for example when we have Helena (our main character) walking through the door we have a clip of her walking to the door, opening the door with the door handle and walking through the door.

Shot/reverse shot is were two or more shots edited together between to characters e.g in a conversation

180 degree rule this is were two characters in the same scene have to have the same left right relationship to each other (the same distance.)