Prelim task

During our filming lesson, we were divided into groups of 4, where we were given a scenario where someone walks through a door, says some dialogue to the person in the room and then walks out again.
This is the scenario we were given:

In my group there was Holly, Honey, Miran and I, but for our filming, we asked 2 people to act for us.
Before we could start filming, we had to set up the tripod and the camera. To do this we:

• Adjusted the tripod to the right height
• Bubbling the tripod to make it level
• Attatched the camera to the tripod
• Open the shutter on the camera and turn it on
• White balance the camera by facing it towards a white surface
• Adjust the shutter speed
• Focus the camera

This is the camera we used: Sony HDV HD HVR-V1

We had to do a variety of different shots in the short filming sequence:

• Wide shot

• Over the shoulder shot

• Close up

We also had to make sure that we didn't break the 180 degree rule: