Eastenders Prelim

The task that we were set was to recreate a scene from Eastenders, the popular soap opera. the scene had a very generic setting as like most soap opera's, it started off with a scene inside a house where the phone rang, giving a midshot whilst answering the phone and led into another technique used in many soap opera's, further on in the scene during a conversation, the shot- reverse- shot technique, which shows the reaction of who is being spoken to, usually from an over the shoulder shot, where the camera switches between the two charecters points of view. many of our shots seemed very rushed and, had we had more time, we could have probably acted better during the shots, however, our shots seemed to flow quite well and our continuety was good, which was one new thing i learnt from this excercise along with the shot-reverse-shot technique which i shall carry on into later filming excercises to enhance my filming skills.