AS Preliminary Task: 'The Caretaker'

This was our first ever time filming in our new production teams, and so gave us a chance to get used to working with each other closely.

In the Preliminary task that was set, we were given the following requirements of the film that we should adhere to:-

• Film someone walking through a door in two shots (i.e. one shot was done from behind the person as they open the door, then in the second shot; we film that same person coming through the door from the other side), taking care to avoid continuity errors and hence create succesful 'match-on-action'.
• Include a few lines of dialogue between one character and another.
• Clear use of shot/reverse shot, and adhering to the 180 degree rule of shooting.

The finished piece is displayed below for your viewing pleasure. Thank you.

We felt that our film was quite good for our first try and the audience feedback provided us with some positives and negatives points. Our audience said that our framing was good yet our sound could have been improved by integrating it with the initial soundtrack that we produced.  The amount of dialogue we used was also a strong point that our audience picked up on; yet our match on action could have been improved when Lewis and Dean run through the door, this error could have been fixed in editing and we shall take this into consideration for future tasks. I feel that producing this has gave us some of the basic skills we need to make our films in the future better.