Preliminary Task Analysis:

For our preliminary we have created a short film to show the various shots we have used to create different effects. For example, we began our task with an extreme long shot of Kiera sat in the church. Low key lighting is used, showing the darkness which relates back to her enclosed privacy. This illustrates the emptiness and lonely surrounding of the setting.

We then used a Medium shot of Ruben walking into the church. This was to instantly create a connection with him and feel empathetic as he played an important character. Meanwhile, we could also see the surrounding background, which relates back to the darkness in the church. A long shot of Ruben and Kiera sat down indicates to the viewers the loneliness suggesting it is a quiet and deserted place.

Furthermore, an eye line match was used focusing on Ruben as he idolises the statue. This is an important part of the sequence as it shows a religious symbol. Also it reflects Rubens belief, which suggests it is important to him. The eye line match then focuses on the statue as a low angle shot. This shows the statue is important, which was very useful in the task. In the task we have also used shots such as an extreme close up. For instance, this shows the disturbance of the church which is a key feature as it breaks the peace full, calm atmosphere. This worked well and was a good part of our sequence as it shown the viewers information without dialogue.

A two-shot was also used, focusing on Ruben and Kiera. This shows their connection to the viewers. The wide range of shots selection we used were good and angled correctly. They showed different effects for instance, the difference between the extreme long shot and the extreme close up. However, we could improve on our organisation skills and the quality of the shaky cinematography.

Having this experience has taught us more effective techniques of camerawork. For example, at the start of our preliminary task we cut the head of one of the characters and some of the frames were longer than they needed to be, this made the prelimanory task over two minuteswhen it only needed to be a maximum of 40 seconds. As a result, we have learned to make frames shorter and link together more effectively through our mistakes, such as following the character walking which takes up valuable time, we have learned that we can clear these errors in our piece by employing jump cuts, match cuts and cutaways.