Preliminary Task

Anyway to bring you up to date with what is going on we have just finished filming and editing our preliminary project which is a simple film which displays someone coming into a room, exchanging a few lines of dialogue and certain camera shots must be displayed. My group consisted of Ali, Usman, Shadei and myself which is a group that I have no problem with working with. We had quite a problem with our storyline as at first we had a story about a gay couple (male) one of them was Cockney the other was Asian as they went to meet their parents. Our teacher didn't really approve of my comedic script so this meant the entire story had to be scrapped and we eventually had to come up with a more mundane story of two friends meeting up at one of their houses. Filming commenced the next week, and as we gathered our cameras, the filming started with Ali filming Usman calling me to inform me that he has the new Fifa and a new projector to play on; this scene kind of got on my nerves as Ali kept filming from so many different angles that it was ridiculous, Shadei and I became restless as we weren't filing or being filmed. Eventually the scene was finished and we moved onto my scene where all I had to do was look happy at thought of playing Fifa on a massive projector; once again this simple scene was shot from several different angles which I thought was a waste of time (don't tell Ali), which led to the next scene of Usman and I meeting at his house (not his actual house obviously). This scene was filmed with more efficiency than the other scenes and was over quite quickly especially as Usman and I got so much into character that the arguments we had over who was going to win went past the allocated filming time. The last proper scenes we filmed was one of Usman and I getting down to the nitty gritty of gameplay whilst we push and shove and I celebrate scoring, we did however film one more scene but we didn't plan enough to fully utilise our time so this meant that we didn't really film the scene to its full potential so the next time we film planning will be key.