Planning- Preliminary task- Mr Smith

In our groups we have made a preliminary task which has allowed us to try out the camera and practise the use of different shots, sizes and angles.

We started the preliminary video with an over the shoulder shot of Cheila who is panicking when he find out that his business partner does not have the package that he was expecting to get. We used the over the shoulder shot because we wanted to capture his facial expressions and also make sure that the person that he was talking to was also part of the shot.

 We where also able to capture a mid length shot of Cheila, where we got his waist up, but unfortunately we where not able to capture his full head. I really enjoyed this shot because it allowed us to have a closer look at Cheila the tripod really helped as it allowed to move the camera in sync with Cheilas movements.

The low angle shot was something we planned to use from the  beginning because we knew it would make Sean look powerful and dangerous as he's representing a dangerous gangsta.








High Angle shot has been used here to make Cheila look weaker than  Sean, we used the tripod to take this shot, and it really helped because it allowed us to adjust it the height we wanted to.








Whilst we where filming we encountered a number of difficulties, such as finding the right setting was  hard as there was many people walking around and a fair amount of noise. It was hard finding also the right lighting that would look right in the camera.
Whilst  editing we encountered not many difficulties, once we got the hang on how to use the software properly it was fairly easy, and straight forward.




I have learned that editing takes a fair amount of time as there is different amounts of editing techniques that you need to use.