Preliminary task and evaluation.

Our preliminary task was very simple, with no real plot to it. It shows a teacher handing in some paperwork to a head teacher. We decided to focus on a very simplistic plot so that we could instead spend more time demonstrating the various filming techniques that we had to demonstrate.

We used the following techniques in our preliminary task:

• Match on action: This was shown when the female teacher entered the classroom, match on action is when the audience sees the actor start an action from one camera angle and finish it in another, for example, like demonstrated in the clip, when the female teacher entered through the door. The audience first see her outside the classroom about to enter, but the shot finishes from within the classroom. 
• Eyeline match: We used eyeline match to express a feeling of confusion from the female teacher when she was about to leave the room. We did this by filming one of the teachers looking one way and then filmed the other teacher looking back in a different shot. Post editing it looked like the two teachers were looking in the same direction when the raw footage would show that they were not. 
• Shot reverse shot: This was used to film the conversation. This is done by filming over the shoulder of the person that isn't talking. So when the female teacher is talking, the camera man would be behind the male teacher and vice versa. 
• 180 degree rule: We did not break the 180 degree rule at any point.