Preliminary Task

After a slow and frustrating camera set up, I began with the white balance task. White balance is the process of removing unrealistic colour casts, so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white in your photo. Firstly, to complete this white balance task, I had to take a piece of plain A4 paper. Then a member of my group held this paper in a fixed position. I then zoomed specifically onto the piece of paper, where I held this shot it in focus. This was then followed by an adjustment on the camera settings to enable the white balance to occur. 

    Once my group completed this, we found a location for our first ever filming task. Due to there being no available actors for the filming, two out of three people from the group had to volunteer. So myself and another member of the group became the actors. I filmed single varied shots of the other actor, while he filmed me, followed by the other person filmed wide shots consisting of both actors. The story board itself was difficult to follow, due to the lack of time the actors could not learn the script. Also using the camera for the first time is quite daunting, due to the level of concentration required and the ability to multi-task. As a result we improvised the script. The 180 degree rule was a burden for me personally and as a result a main cause for the retakes. Due to the actors improvising each retake, they would forget their previous lines.

    Although this task was a challenge, and not as successful as we would have liked, as a group we delivered as much as we could in the conditions provided. Despite our minimal knowledge and experience at this moment in time, lots of lessons were learnt, and room for improvement is recognised by the group and myself, such as the 180 degree rule.