PRELIMINARY EXERCISE BRIEF

The preliminary excercise was a simple continuity task involving a character walking into a room, sitting down opposite another character and exchanging roughly 4 lines of dialogue. This task required us to shoot and edit. This presented us with the chance to learn the basics of creating a storyboard and shooting as well as introducing us to the editing equipment. As we were all relatively unfamiliar with the camera and the editing equipment all responsibilities were shared out equally amongst the groups of three giving each of us the chance to familiarise ourselves with the equipment. The responsibilities each of us had during the excercise included writing a basic storyboard consisting of around 6 shots and including dialogue, shooting each of these at the right shot size and eventually editing the piece together using 'final cut pro' on the editing machines. One of the main aims of this exercise was to introduce us to the basic rules of filming such as shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree line rule.