Creative Task 1 - Making Opening Scenes

The storyboard:

This is a short scene of someone asking where Media Class is - a conversation, breaking the 180 Degree Rule shot.

First shot

Problems

When we put all the clips together and began to edit, we have noticed a few slight problems:

1. The "looking at the watch" scene; was not clear on who's looking at the watch.
2. When the girl actor drops the book, it looks like she dropped it on purpose. Where on the script, we planned it to be 'accidentally dropped it'.
3. When the boy actor runs through the hall, he is not using glasses, yet when he opens the class door, he uses glasses.

To solve / To improve

We have planned on re-do the shot when the boy actor was looking at the watch. Going to change the point of view to make it clear who's looking at the watch. Re-do the shot where the girl actor coming down the stairs, showing her turning from the corner so the viewers knew she was coming. Also, we're going to re-do the 'Dropping book' scene, to make it so it looks like she's accidentally dropped it. We might as well re-do the 'Running down the hallway' scene, so the viewers don't get confused about the glasses.



Second shot

This second shot has been re-touched and improved in some ways.


Improvement

This scene is much better than the first one and much more understandable, even though the first one was really good, just by adding (+ edit) extra shots to the old clip; the extra shots makes it more clear for the audience to understand. We have solve the all the problems from the first shot, also, we have added some things on the clips to make it more dramatic -since the scene is about being late.

All in all, the improvements makes this clip more understandable and much better, although we noticed a few problems still.

1. When the girl actor showed the time table to the boy actor, the audience will be able to see me standing in the frame on the background.
2. Also the same on the next clip, where the boy actor took the diary and looked surprised, the audience will still be able to see me in the frame on the background.
3. On the clip, where the boy actor pushes the girl actor, we have to mute the sound, because there was someone laughing (me) in the middle of the clip.

These problems are "minor" and mostly unnoticeable (for most people; i think), but we agreed that  this second shot is good already, so we might not do some improvements to this clip.



What I have learnt

After this task, I now know how to structure an opening scene, and make it so the audience understands what's going on. I have also learnt a new technique; how to do a shot reverse shot using the 180 degree Rule. Even though we have break the rule, I think it is a good experiment to do, so we know how to do the shot reverse shot without breaking the rule and with breaking the rule.