Preliminary Task

Analysing a TV Drama

Preliminary Task

Our Preliminary Task

For our preliminary task, we are filming a minor part of a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom the character then exchanges a few of lines of dialogue. This task will establish match on action shot, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.

Match on Action Shot

The match on action shot will emphasise certain events within our clip which will make it stand out more. Match on action (or cutting on action) is an editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot. This is not a graphic match or match cut, it portrays a continuous sense of the same action rather than matching two separate things.

Shot/Reverse Shot

Shot reverse shot is a continuity editing technique used in conversations or simply characters looking at each other or objects. A shot showing what the character is supposedly looking at (either a point of view or over the shoulder shot) is followed by a reverse angle shot of the character themselves looking at it, or of the other character looking back at them, for example.

The 180 Degree Rule

The 180° rule is a filming guideline that participants in a scene should have the same left-right relationship to each other, with filming only taking place within the 180° angle in which this is maintained in a conversation, for example. This allows the audience to have a greater sense of location in the scene in terms of what may be off-screen in some shots, for example in shot reverse shots.

Story Board - Prelimarey Task

This is the final storyboard for our preliminary task. We used a range of different camera angles such as extreme close ups, long shots, follow shots etc.

We have came up with the name of 'La Penna Rosa' for now, but that could possibly change in the near future.

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Post-Production

TV series 'Utopia' on Channel 4, is a sci-fi thriller that centres around a inequitable group of people who discover a global conspiracy in a comic book. But they do not know if they are living in the conspiracy.
In order to show connotations to the comic, they dress the sets in more yellows, cyans and magentas so in post-production they can make them bolder. Colourist Aidan Darrell carefully colour correct each shot in post-production.
I have learnt that Post-Production occurs after starting the filming of your movie.
Post-Production contains: editing, publication, and a short evaluation.

Throughout post-production, the producers, the director, and script writers can take a seat and watch their movie completed. This can permit them to see if the filming meets their storyboard and what they need out of their movie, that commendably meets their targetable watchers and that it gets the top results.

 

  

We practiced shots using a Nikon DSLR D3000

 Mid-Shot

 

 

Establishing Shot

Extreme Close Up 

 

 

 Long Shot using Leading Line

 Close Up

 Establishing Shot

 

 Low Angled Shot

 Three Different Viewpoints from Different Angles

 Mid Shot 

 

 

 Long Shot

 A Long Shot using Background