Our Preliminary Task.

This is our preliminlary task starring me and Tara.

It was filmed by Jake Harding, and edited by myself, Tara, and Jess.

It's very short and simple but quite funny!




Our excerise had to include continuity, match on action, shot/reverse shot, and the 180 degree rule. Our preliminary task involves all of these things.

We started off with our titles. We created our own music using GarageBand and used cool synth effects. This gave us good practise for when we have to make our own music for our thriller.

After the titles we started with our establishing shot of Tara walking towards the building. We used a pan as well to follow her action. We then see a mid-shot of her walking in but see this inside the building which is the 180 degree rule. Then it is a long shot of Tara walking towards me. Then we see a close-up/over shoulder shot of me talking to show Tara is still there, so it looks like a conversation. We then see a close up of the bag so you can see the action. After that, we see a very short clip of Tara handing me the homework.

At this point we experienced some problems with the continuity. For the next shot we had moved places so we had to use a dissolve effect to show time passing. This has helped us gain experience for continuity so we won't make the same mistake twice!

Then me and Tara skip off into happiness and the shot closes in on us. The music also starts to play, indicating quite obviously the end.

We had great fun filming and editing this preliminary task and we have now come up with even more ideas for our soundtrack and filming ideas!