Question 7 script

In the preliminary exercise we had to perform a short piece of film, which was continuous task. It had to include shot-reverse-shot, a match on action shot and demonstrate the 180-degree line. This involved two people walking down a corridor, entering a room, sitting down, exchanging a few lines of dialogue, getting up and leaving as a group we included everything in the brief.

For our main task, we had to create our own original two-minute film that also demonstrated shot-reverse-shot, match on action and the 180-degree line. It included the titles to the opening film.  We could use whatever location we liked and whatever storyline. We used the camera, Sony HD 100 when filming both the preliminary exercise and the two-minute film. This gave us knowledge how to use it in our film as we knew what we had to do and didn’t have to mess about finding out.

In our preliminary exercise, we had to use Celtx to create a professional looking script as the two characters had to exchange multiple lines of dialogue.  When I first started the preliminary exercise, I didn’t know how to work Celtx or know what it was but due to learning how to use it, I could then develop my skills by using in the two-minute film by creating a script that was easy to follow and included the stage directions.

After we filmed for our preliminary exercise, we had to edit it using Final Cut Express. I had no experience with it beforehand but afterwards I had learnt how to include cross-fades, sound bridges an how to cut certain parts of the film out so it was continuous. This helped me in my two-minute film, as I then knew what had to be done and how to make my film better, I could be more creative and add more effects.

However in my two-minute film I included sound and music which I had not done in my preliminary exercise making it more professional and it made our film have a tone depending on the music or if it was silent. I got the music of free sound effects off the Internet and added them on in Final Cut Express, which I had to learn as I had never done it before.