Pre-Lim Video task.

I Only Married Her for a Visa.



Group: Justyn Hollett, Alex McKenzie & Emma Garvie.

In this lesson, our task was to create a short passage of film to experiment and demonstrate our knowledge of the SONY V1 HD cameras, we will be using for our short films.

Our Pre- Lim task short films must include these shots:

- Character opening a door
- Character walking across a room.
- Conversation between two characters.

The film must include these element:

- Adhere to the 180 degree rule.
- Shot reverse shot
- Continuity. - character walking through a door, shot from outside then inside.

From these elements, we originated an idea of that our main character (played by Alex) would be going to visit his divorce lawyer (played by Emma). We knew we had to incorporate all these elements so we used a lift that Alex could go up, so we could do an achievable continuity shot.

We found that we failed to plan our shots which arose problems in editing. This was evident, when we tried to do continuity in editing for example: when Alex comes out of the lift.
I feel our group may have concentrated on the narrative more than camera angles and techniques. This is something I will take into account in creating my short film, that narrative should coincide with the filming. In the conversation scenes, we forgot to use a script

To create the title, we used Photoshop. We wanted to achieve a simplistic and professional look, however adhere to the nature of the film narrative. So we took a picture of a visa card and import Alex face onto it.

Overall I feel the short piece was successful as it demonstrates all the element we had to include as it is edited with professionalism.