Hey hi, welcome to our blog. Our prelim is about a bully who is trying to get his money of his victim its genre is edged towards comedy with the bullying of a victim of a funny nature. We started our prelim by taking a serious of shots starting from the front of Loreto college gates when the bully enters and we then have a mid close up on him on the way to his destination he then walks towards one of colleges main buildings where he then assaults a couple of college students by pushing them he then goes up the stairs to the second floor of that Ellis and Kennedy building to try find his victim what owes the bully (Fidel) money as he walking up the stairs there is a close up on his shoes also their is a stomp from his feet this show his power the bully has then as he reaches the top of the stairs he is then confronted by his victim there is then a shot reverse shot conversation where the bully takes his phone. We decided that we would need to use a high tempo song to accompany the aggressive behavior of the main actor which in turn would exaggerate the overall mood to the film but even tho the mood of aggresion is exaggerated the film it has worked quite effectively. However as our prelim has a comedy edge to it we thought a song that was too aggressive would make the film more serious and people wouldn't see the funny side to it. Pow 2011 by Lethal bizzle and various other artists from london seemed like the perfect song choose to be used to show aggression in the bully actor with out the film losing the funny side to it. During the task we learnt that filming is a long process, 10 minutes of filming would most likely end up to be about 5 secs in the real thing after it had been edited down. This meant that we had to take more shots than we first thought to get a enough footage to make our prelim. The filming took five lessons in total this was due to missing shots such as shot/reverse/shot, also we used the 180 degree rule to keep contiunity by keeping the camera on the same side. We then used the ending software Final cut pro which is where we put all the clips together and actually made the short film. At first we found the final cut pro very difficult to use as it is a complex type of software. However once we had a basic understanding of how to use it the pace that we put the preliminary task together increased. This took more time than we expected though as we didn't know that every clip added would need to be rendered individually. We also realised that not rendering video clip leaves the clips that were imported didnt have no sound. This is the camera we used its the Canon Legria Fs306
Overall filming went well and we got varied camera shots required and had good acting. We also worked well together as a team and everyone in our group had a role to play. For example Fidel was the main actor and yomi did some acting and some camerawork. However we did have a few problems along the way for example when we had finished filming certain shots we had taken could not be retrieved from the SD card in the camera. Another problem we then faced was that we had not got all the desired camera shots we needed in order to complete our prelim so we had to un-edit the last bit and then go out and re-film the last part of our film. there were also a few other minor inconstancies. For example how the sound fluctuated between different shots in the dialogue and the actors appearance also changed during the film e.g. Fidel started the film with a bit of hair but ended it with no hair. Another problem we had was the camera some shots were hard to achieve with freehand so we resolved this by getting a camera stand from the media department. this helped to achieve much greater quality of images and shots. 
This is the camera stand we used it helps to keep the camera much stable and its effective for taking long shots. The other members of the group Clive & Dominic took more of a directors approach and gave the ideas and methods of acting which Yomi and Fidel took well this achieved an effective Prelim video through working together as a team. Clive also did camera work as he was an effective good camera man. Their is some good elements to this Prelim which are, the camerawork the overall shots are of a good standard however the best shots is arguably is the Fidel enters the corridor of the Ellis and Kennedy building because the camera kept track of Fidel pretty smoothly. Also the close up of the foot was an effective shot. The editing work well each clip runs simitanously which is good considering it was our first time using the program Final Cut Pro. The music what was added to the video was good how it matches to certain parts of the prelim although it was accidently it worked well.
