Last Wednesday, our group received our preliminary task. Our brief was to make a short 1-minute film which included "match on action" and "shot reverse shot" shot types. We began to storyboard our short film very quickly, it consisted of 8 shots and a very brief dialogue exchange. Billy controlled the camera while myself, Joe and Daniel played the characters. I had to play the character included in the "match on action" shot. We had no trouble creating the match on action shot and were able to make it extremely smooth in the editing process. The next shot consisted of a panning shot across the room as Joe escorted me towards Daniel. This short did not turn out as well as we had hoped as the cut to the shot was jerky, though it was not our fault as the room was very hard to shoot in with many obstacles in the way. The "shot-revers-shot" was implemented through my conversation with Daniel. Daniel played his character very well, keeping a straight face through very comical lines, while also portraying anger very well. In the editing process we added a 'thunderclap' to compliment the anger of Daniels character. Overall, I feel the production process went very well considering it was our first attempt while post production was integral in giving our film fluidity and some overall polish that was needed. We were able to add a title and credit sequence to open and close the film respectively. All sound effects used were non copyright material.
-Regan McSweeney
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