The Delivery Guy (Our Preliminary Task)

For our preliminary task we had to demonstrate the use of an eye-line match, match-on-action, 180 degree rule and the shot reverse shot. The eye-line match we used was of the delivery man looking at his watch, this lead into the graphic match between the two clocks in the different rooms. We also stuck to the 180 degree rule and we achieved the shot reverse shot through the phone conversation. Our match-on-action came with the door opening and closing on two occasions. We also had some rules to adhere to these were; Character A walks toward a closed door, Character A enters through the door and crosses the room to where Character B is seated, Character A+B exchange a few lines or dialogue, Character A+B exchange a few lines or dialogue and Either Character A or A exit the room. We stuck pretty close to these rules and only the last one we didn't do because we thought it better to end the scene with character A being 'killed', however we added it in at the start so the number of 'door' shots were the same.




I believe our preliminary task worked well because of the organised way we set it up and scripted it compared to previous tasks. We filmed in a chronological order as this seemed most logical and it went well as we hardly had to re film or come back to previous shots. This style of filming was good for us as we could see the tension and the build up to the climax unfolding through the film without us giving away any hints to the anti climax. The idea of the anti climax stemmed from the red herring concept where the audience is led to believe something that is false. Our take on the thriller was to add an air of comedy for the anti climax instead of the usual mystery packages exchanged in thrillers such as weapons, drugs or information we used a sandwich. However the consequences of the wrong package being delivered are typical of thrillers.

There a few criticism in our task. Things we noticed were;

• The foot in the background - we did not notice this until we were almost finished and did not have time to re-film it however it is not as extremely noticeable.
• Our sound could also be criticised because it stops without us seeing it being switched off or turned down but this is not a big problem and we don't believe many audiences would notice.
• We could also criticise the camera work toward the end, we attempted a very tricky moving tilt which worked quite well although it was a bit rough and not as smooth as we would have liked. We did choose to include it though as we thought it was a good experimental shot.