Evaluating the preliminary task:

1: Explain what you were asked to do and how you prepared for the task:

Our preliminary task was to film a character opening a door, crossing a room, sitting down in a chair oposite another character, with whom he exanges a couple of lines, and then edite it. We had to demostrate shot-reverse-shot, match on action, and the 180 degrees rule.

We first prepared a storyboard drawing each shot, explaining the type of camera angle, shot, dialogue and actions of each sceen. Then we decided where to use the 180 degrees rule, the shot-reverse-shot and match on action and we wrote it in the storyboard too. We also decided wher we were going to film it and we chose the art room because it was empty in that moment.

2: Filming:

In this film, i was the principal character and Calvin was the one that filmed it. But we needed another character so we asked Andrew to appear in our film.

We started fiming the match and action of me opening a door using medium long shots. Then i (character 1) walked through the corridor and stopped at the art room's door. We the used the shot reverse shot technique with a close-up shot of my hand over the door handle and pulling it before a medium shot of me oppening the door. Then we filmed a shot of character 1 (me) opening the door from inside of the room , using again match on action to join this shot with the previous one. Then Calvin filmed me wlaking through the room, sitting on a chair and talking with Andrew. We used over the shoulder shots during the conversation between the characters, according with the 180 degrees rule.
Finally, we filmed a close up shot of character 2 giving the blue paint to character 1 and a long shot of character 1 leaving the room.

We tried to fit all the main objects and subjects in the frame. In almost every shot the actors and relevant objects are placed in the centre of the screen to make it look as effective as possible.

3: Editing:
I am satisfied with the final result because, although we had some problems with the computer while editting, i think we used all the shots effectively and the story is easy to understand.
The sequence could have improved if we had rewinded to see if we needed to change or re-film any shots more frecuently. In my opinion, the camera and the subjects where in the right position in every shot.
As a group, i think we worked perfectly, even though there was only two of us. We divided the work in two tasks. I did the perfoming and Calvin did the fiming.

We had a really good time filming and editing it and now i feel much more confident using the camera than before.