We were set the preliminary exercise for a lesson with the intent to further our knowledge and skills of the camera equipment. We had previously been out with the cameras once, but this was only to learn how they actually worked, and to shoot single shots. With that knowledge, we were set the preliminary exercise to film a sequence, simply of a short exchange of dialogue between two people. The whole sequence had to be made up of roughly 12 shots, we filmed character 1 walking down a corridor, into a room and sitting opposite character 2 - here they recited a short script.
Before we done this, we had to get used to the 'prep' task - this included a storyboard and the pre-production, which made sure we knew exactly what we were doing. At this time, we also acknowledged what groups we would be in and what we wanted for our overall production outcome.
Within filming our sequence we needed to use a wide range of camera shots and angles such as close-ups, long shots, over the shoulder etc, and get used to the idea of handles and overlaps, which when it came down to editing, it flowed a lot nicer. Also, we had important rules we had to get our heads round, which are the 180 degree line and the rule of thirds - that stop any confusion.
After we had filmed, and are confident with our shots, we had to use the editing programme on the mac's to log in our footage. We then chose the shots we were happy with and put them in order, once this was done we had to cut down, overlap and capture the induvidual shots to make them flow nicely, make sence and ultimatly make the sequence.
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