We were set a task to shoot 20 seconds of a simple action shot for our preliminary practical preparation. My group of four of us used the camera to shoot a simple action shot of me walking into the frame, picking up a sugar pot from a table and walking out of the frame. We shot five different angles. These were: wide shot, mid shot, low angle mid shot, close up and a high angle close up of my feet, walking.
The whole aim of this task was to understand how to use the camera properly and to understand how to shoot an action shot. For example understanding that the camera needs to be still and we must let the action play through in front of the camera. We also had to take into consideration the 180° Rule. This is rule which is a basic guideline in film making which states that two characters in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other if the camera passed over the imaginary line between the two characters; this is called crossing the line, and should never be done.
After we had shot our frame in groups of four, we watched each groups clip play back and a lot of criticisms were thrown around because people had not taken into account the lesson on cameras and had forgotten about the 180 rule. Also people did not take into account the bubble rule which means that the clip was shot at a slightly off straight angle. However my group got really good feedback as we had taken into account everything we had been told and therefore had a really good sequence to show. Because of this, we were told our group is able to utilize the TV studio with a constructed set for our Preliminary Sequence.
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