Preliminary task introduction

The preliminary task that we have just produced is a short one minute video of someone walking through a door and having a conversation with someone else already in the room. We are creating this short video as it enables us to develop our filming skills with the digital camera and our editing skills on premiere pro editing software. Also by producing this video, it enables us to get to know the people in our group more and find out how well we work as a group by putting this short preliminary video together.

In our preliminary task Charlotte and myself walk through the classroom door on our way ready to discuss rumours with Georgia, Megan and Charlie about a very 'crazy party' that is apparently taking place later that evening . We discuss topics such as drugs and alcohol throughout this video which means an age restriction is tagged onto our video. This is so that it doesn't offend anyone viewing in anyway and doesn't enable young minors to watch this video.
Throughout this video we use a range of different camera shots to create different effects.
Some camera techniques that we used were: match on action, shot reverse shot and 180 degree rule.
Match on action was used for continuity in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot. This creates an impression of continuity. The action carrying through creates a 'visual bridge' which draws the viewers attention from continuity problems or from slight cutting.
We also used shot reverse shot in this preliminary task. This is a continuity editing technique used in conversations or looking at each other or objects.
We used another editing technique called 180 degree rule. This is a continuity technique that states that two characters in a scene should maintain the same left/right relationship to one another .

We used a variety or different things to edit this video . We chopped out bits that were not wanted and didn't really flow with the rest. We increased the saturation on each of the clips to make the scenery look more warmer and brighter . This is so viewers would be drawn into watch because of the aluminous colours. We added credits at the end to tell the viewers who directed, edited , produced this film etc. We added upbeat music at the end of the video to go with the credits . We chose this music as I believe it fit well with the title ' Party plan'. This upbeat dance music also will lure people into watch as it creates a sense of excitement . We used fast blur in at the start . This was so it created a different, more exciting effect at the beginning . We did the same at the end just before the credits but we used fast blur out instead.