Preliminary Exercise – Love Struck

Preliminary Exercise – Love Struck

My Preliminary Exercise show a short opening of a man walking into the canteen to talk to his girlfriend/lover and get dumped/heartbroken at the end. In my group, I deicide to work with Harpal, Vinisha and Harjio, we all deicide to do a romance sequence and call it Love Struck, as we felt it was right working with a boy and a girl, we felt the performance will be very interested and also feel that the sequence would catch the audience attention.

Our Preliminary Exercise ‘Love Struck’ starts off with a man walking toward a door outside the canteen. We first use a tilt up shot from ground then move it up with a tripod, only showing the back of his shoes and trouser, so the audience doesn't know who he is at first and what going on. I think that we got the right shots in the exercise with the Match on Action was very good as we got editing part it was very easy. We tried to use as many shots as we can like tilt down shots, more close up of the characters and long shot of the surround but we felt it was all right as it is, as it already has aspect of a normal conversation using these shots like over the shoulder shots.

    

Two things I have learnt from our Preliminary exercise are to make sure that we film in a quite and clean place. As in our performance it was too noise and a lot of interruption, we should of film it somewhere else or should have filmed it at another time; the audio was very bad, we found this out after as we watch it after, as we were editing it, we couldn't very hear any of the character talking in the performance. Also, we broke the 180 degree rule in our performance, first we got it right when they are having the conversation but broke it in the last two shots, when we shot the other side of the male character face, which it look like he swap seat with the female character. 

Moreover, the last shot of rose flowing down on the floor is one of the best shots in the performance which to created an enigma code the audience what to know what happen to the male character, as we slowed it down to make a dramatic effective to the exercise, and it very easy in the editing part of the exercise to do. Also the acting of both character were very good which is the most important thing to get right for the performance, we needed to make sure that it good to make sure that it engage the audience. The story is straight followed, so the audience know what happen in the story. From where he walks to the door, open it, walk through and seat down and start talking to the female character.   

I felt that my group wear very good, as I would work with them again in the future, as I learnt new techniques in the editing part like make shots duration faster and slower, which would belief me in the future as I make my own exercise, also would give me good ideas too.