Preliminary Task Evaluation

180° Degree Rule.

 When we made our short movie, we had to take in to account the 180° rule throughout the project. The 180° rule is the main rule for film making and it shouldn't be broken. If the rule is broken the whole film starts to not make sense to the audience. The 180° degree rule is the position of the camera, you have to imagine there is an invisible line in which the camera stays behind,  If the camera crosses that line then it has broken the 180° rule and will make the characters or objects appear to have  moved, when it hasn't. We used this rule at all times when making out short movie. Another rule that we used is Match on action, this is when it appears there are two cameras when really there is only one. It has been edited to look like this. We used match on action when Ryan was walking out of the room, we filmed him from inside the room and then outside the room, making sure we still went along with the 180° degree rule. Eye line match is another camera angle which we used, eye line match is when the camera is eye level with the character and the characters and having eye connection. We used this when Claudia noticed Ryan walking into the room and Ryan shouting " what are you doing".




In terms of film making i believe it went well, we payed attention to the storyboard at all times and it gave us a rough idea of what camera shots were coming next and where the characters ( Ryan+Claudia) were standing next. There wasn't a huge variety of places to choose from around the college but n the end we decided to use the teachers meeting room, as it looked like an office and had a phone on the wall, which went along with the storyboard. We also used the corridor outside of the meeting room to show Ryan walking away from the room. 

To put the film together we used Adobe Premiere, which has all the necessary film editing on it. I learnt how to import our film off the SD card. Once this had been done we had to cut parts out that didn't fit in. we then joined the video clips together. After the film had been put together making sure we had different camera angles we then added titles we started off with the film production name 'Harc Production Studies' straight after this was the title 'I.D' and then staring Claudia Walker + Ryan Dobson, at the end we added incidental music to give the film more of a dramatic feel to it, at the parts the characters were talking we had to turn the sound down and the voices up, so that we could hear them.