Prelim task

During these lesson Mrs Pemberton set us the task of producing a short piece of video with a simple structure and narrative. The piece had to include:

• A character opening a door
• A character crossing a room and sitting in a chair opposite another character
• Exchange a couple of lines of dialogue
• Match on action shots
• Shot reverse shot
• 80 degree rule
• All as creative as possible

I worked in a group with Justyn and Alex, members of the class I enjoy working with. We didn’t use the previous planning time we were given wisely, and when it came to the day of filming, we were completely unprepared. Luckily enough A narrative sprung to mind, my synopsis was:

Young Babatunday made the common mistake of marrying a British woman, just to stay in the country. He goes to visit a divorce lawyer who is unsympathetic and rejects his application. Unfortunately, Babatunday let slip to the lawyer that he did only marry the British woman to renew his visa. Consequently, immigration deported him back to Nigeria.

Filming was successful until we ran out of ideas for interesting shots. Everything was rushed and we were all slightly confused when it came to the log and capture process, it had been a long, long time. Due to the lack of planning, our shots were a bit all over the place to put it kindly. However we managed to progress with what we had through the editing progress, adding music using Soundtrack Pro, and creating opening titles with Photoshop.

Conclusively, I believe if we would of planned the prelim task more sufficiently, and not get caught up in the humorous element within the narrative, it could of been finished to a higher professional quality.

I Only Married her for a Visa from BDC on Vimeo.