Our Prelim task reflected real TV dramas and films in many ways but also differed. Firstly like in Eastenders our conversation had the same camera shots, which were mainly two shots and over the shoulder shots due to it being a conversation between two people. Also when we edited our conversations, we could see that an eye line match was present like in many TV dramas, ones that I’ve specifically seen, are Waterloo Road & Eastenders which display a perfect demonstration of eye line match which we created within our conversations. And lastly another similarity is that the conversations had elements of realism like in Waterloo road, which again has school students present, same with our set task.
However our task differed in many ways to TV dramas and films. In Waterloo road when an intense conversation is about to start some sort of non-diegetic sound will play, too add impact and suspense to what is about to be said, our conversations didn’t have any non-diegetic sounds so here is a way in which it differed from a TV drama. Additionally an obvious reason is because of the actual quality of the conversation, usually within a drama there in no back ground sounds or there are ones that have been purposely put there such as in Waterloo road; conversations from students in the back ground, we had the unprofessional ruffle or scuff of the camera, or the quality of the recorded scenes weren’t as good as professional TV dramas or films.
The audience for our media product would be mainly for teenagers of all sexes due to the two different sexed actors which again are teenagers which makes it easier to relate to, but really only suited to teenagers rather than adults as humour is included which is targeted to a specific niche (in this case age group, teenagers.) the humour is quite immature as well as, so that only teenagers would find funny.
I have learned many things from doing the prelim task which range from how to use the camera to the actual acting, as i was an actor. As i wasn’t using the camera, there wasn’t much i could learn from it however, i was engaged in how people in my group were using the camera and how their skills were adapting. Firstly i could see them testing out different camera angles from using the camera tripod for the first time, Which consisted of panning and tilting the camera whilst filming the actor coming through the door, to actually sitting down and engaging in conversation . Also the range of shots in which they had to capture from the actor walking in and sitting down which was generally a medium shot then for the actual conversation such as two shots and over the shoulder shots, so the camera had to be frequently passed from the two directors in order to achieve these shots which showed how hard it can sometimes be to actually get the correct shots for a basic conversation between two people. Also we learned the basic functions of the camera, as we hadn’t used that type of camera before which was touch screen, so therefore we gathered how to used it and put it into process.
As an actor the main thing i learned when doing the prelim task was to not acknowledge the camera was there filming, as i was frequently looking at the camera instead of focusing on the person i was talking to. I am glad in the end i established i shouldn’t be doing this as when we watched our videos back on the Mac’s, i looked extremely unprofessional so therefore the whole conversation was not realistic or believable. I also had to work on my tone when talking as i was extremely slow paced and it wasn’t clear enough for the audience to understand so this was another minor thing i learned during the Prelim task.
When using the Mac and IMovie to edit our work, the main thing we learned was how to cut out unnecessary parts in our filming and how to construct the whole conversation together. However it was a major help watching back our videos on screen as we noticed a huge problem when we were shooting, we hadn’t stuck to the 180 degree rule, so therefore the whole conversation was wrong. So once we thought we had already finished, when noticing the problems we had to go and reshoot the whole conversation again taking in mind the problems, then take the best & correct bits from both shoots and reconstruct them all into one video, which is where IMovie helped us co-ordinate both sets of clips together, which was another thing we learned in the editing process of the Prelim task.
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