In order to prepare for this task we have done several previous activities such as friends, lip syncing and our practise task. This blog is about my friends video which I did with Ricky Lawrence, Sophie Harten, Jack Halliday and Darren Cousins. We had to act out a scene from the tv series friends in which we had to follow a script. We began by giving each other a character to follow and gave Jack the role of camera man. We firstly had to learn our words off the script which I believe I did successfully and then began to film. We at first were really bad and had to take a lot more shots than expected to make it look good and cover ourselves for when we edited.  After completing the task we edited as a group to come up with the overall video.

The link to our video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFnETHKDs4Y&list=UUzCuzU6TJVKZ_Khku1FndtQ&index=7&feature=plcp

From this task I have learnt a few very good important aspects that will help me in my final production. Firstly by giving each other a character I have found that we need to stay in the same character all together but also when changing shots we need to be in continuity with our last shot. For example in one of the shots I was facing in one direction which meant that the next shot I would need to be in the same direction to make it similar and look effective. This will help me in my final piece as I would need to think about the positioning of the artist to make it as real as possible. Another thing I found was that we need to learn from the script straight away. In the friends video some people still had their scripts in front of them as they didnt know the words. This would totally ruin our final production if this happened so we would definatly need to make our actor/artist know the words of the song grade 8. This task also allowed me to have more chances with the types of camera shots we need to take and it allowed me to familiarise myself with lots of different camera angles which we could use in our fial production.