Preliminary task!

For my preliminary task we had to group together with no more then 4 people, however I chose to go into a group of three with two of my peers.  I chose to go with two of my friends that I know well and feel confident around so I was able to voice all of my ideas and opinions confidently.My group and I came up with a multiple of ideas for genres, so that we could include the three rules; shot reverse shot, 180 degrees and match on action.  Once we come up with all the ideas it was hard to pick one pacific idea, one that we would find do-able and include all the rules that we had to follow.We originally decided to go with the idea of a thriller, we planned to have one of us running away from some one out of a woods, but we then though how unoriginal the idea was and it will be hard to follow the rule of match on action.So as a group we then decided to settle with the idea of just having a general conversation and using a door. This was the 180-degree rule, Shot Reverse Shot, Match on Action. The Match on Action is when Avril is opening and coming out of the door. The Shot Reverse Shot is when Avril is having a conversation with Temi. Lastly the 180 Degree Rule is when Avril and Temi hug. I was a simple idea but it showed we understood and knew how to follow all of these three rules.Once we had sat down and all discussed who was doing what and where we were going to film it, filming it was easy, we knew what shots we were going to do well and communicated well as a team, altogether we did around 7 shots on the flip cameras, and then uploaded them to the macs, although we didn’t use them all but we didn’t use them all.  We then edited it on Final Cut Express to put it all the videos together in the correct order. Once we did that it all ran really well and one part flowed onto another. Although it looked well, we had to cut out one part, which involved Avril walking towards Temi to talk. We had to get cut it out because Avril looked at the camera and it ruined the whole idea of coming out of the door because Avril looked awkwardly at the camera. After we had cut this out, the short film looked good enough for the preliminary task, and it was complete.I think that the preliminary task worked well for our starter film because we managed to accomplish completing all of the angles that were needed the short film. If I was to improve this film I would make the conversation longer and use other, better actors instead of myself.The video is appropriate for the preliminary task as it is very simple and easy. We will be sure to make the main task a lot better than this.