Preliminary Exercise The Brief

We were asked for our first Project before 'The Exchange' project was our preliminary exercise. We were given a task where we had to shoot a short film lasting approximately a minute. The shoot had to include a character walking into a room where a different character was currently sitting inside, the first character sits down next to or opposite the second character, a couple of lines of dialogue were exchanged and then the end. The reason we were set this task was to lead up to the Main Project that we are doing in January/February time. This exercise was performed to hopefully show common mistakes in our camera work and editing and to improve on it, and because we are not experienced professional cameramen, we need to slowly do exercises to gain experience so that we know what techniques and skills to use for our final project come January/ February time.