For my Preliminary Exercise I got into a group of 4 which include Ryan Honey, Mitchell Din, Andrew Le and myself. We were given a simple story to follow where a character comes into the scene, has a conversation with another character, then the same character that comes in leaves.
Working the camera was Mitchell and Andrew who worked together for two different perspectives on the angles and types of shots in the Mise-en-scene. Ryan and myself were both involved in deciding the shots and what we wanted to film. We were also the two actors in the film.
We had a few slip ups during the filming as we were getting used to the equipment but our end result was extremely satisfying. We felt that we needed to show that we could use a variety of shots and not be afraid to try out difficult shots like the close up of the door handle opening. Although the editing was time-consuming and irritating at times it was thoroughly enjoyable and we felt that our short film was a success.
The whole story, dialogue and amount of shots was all improvisation and purely made up on the spot. We needed to make quick decisions that we all agreed to so that our filming ran smoothly with no conflict between members.
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