My Preliminary Exercise

My Preliminary Exercise 

I undertook a preliminary exercice to practice filming and editing. Below is my task: 

I had to learn how to focus the camera, I ;learned how to bubble the tripod .
Before leaving class I learned how to use the canon 650 and the manfrotto tripod.
I understood the importance of getting the camera properly focussed.
My task is set out below:

FOUNDATION PRODUCTION PRACTICAL

A pizza delivery takes place. Person A delivers the pizza to person B.
Shot types and camera movements to include:

• tracking shot of person A on the way.
• pan as person A enters room.
• Over the shoulder shot to show person B greeting / talking
• over the shoulder shot to show person A's response
• shot reverse shot to show person B

Show that you can:

• Use a tripod to keep shots steady (bubble the tripod).
• Focus the camera. 
• Take care of the camera and tripod.
• Observe the 180 degree rule.  
• Edit the sequence to make meaning clear. (Tutorial here.)
• If you wish, you can add titles / sound to the edit. 

NEXT TASK: making a swede 

The problems I was faced with:

I knew I had to observe the 180 degree rule

I edited this by myself using iMovie.
I had to make sure all the clips conformed to the direct storyline we thought of.