Preliminary Task

Making The Preliminary Task 

The brief we were given : A character opens a door, crosses a room and sits down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he the exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue

After seeing the brief we were given, my initial thoughts were what genre we want this to be, what is the character going to say and how am I going to show this using the camera . We came up with the idea of a police interview and that someone had been killed,  we first started with our story board and how we were going to portray our ideas onto the paper.After this, we decided to chose our location, we decided to use the drama studio in our school as it is a enclosed space and had black walls to keep our genre dark and thrilling . Next we wrote a script which included stage directions so we each knew what we were doing. we decided to film our task after school as we knew this would give us plenty of time to get ready, set up our camera and  mark each position we decided to have it in, and to read through our scripts  to understand our charters.

When writing our story board we decided to use a range of different camera shots such as close up, wide shots and more. When filming and deciding what costumes to wear, we decided that the main character should wear a red top to show danger and death, the voices were wearing black to show that they are dark and not really there. we didn't use any props except chairs when filming.

once we were in the editing process, our brief was changed slightly. We were told that Match on action should be in our piece, therefore we made extra sure that our film had it throughout, we did this by making sure each footer of a shot matched to the header of the next. After making sure that we had Match on action we finally thought our piece was ready, however, again our brief was changed. This time we had to make sure Shot Reverse Shot was included as well. we found little bits of the shots had this but not enough to flow and make a scene work.

Reflection 
When editing our piece of film we realised that looked like a drama piece that had been filmed form different angles. and once we finished we weren't happy with how it looked.

 Fist preliminary task :





Therefore we decided to change our whole story  and re film the whole thing again keeping it simple with just some friends talking together.

To do this, we story boarded again, making sure that we had a range of different shots, such as over the shoulder and wide shots. We wrote our script again keeping it simple and easy to relate to. Also when filming we made sure we had match on action and shot reverse shot to make it easy in the editing process.

When editing we found it much easier to  put together and because we made sure we had everything the brief included  when filming it made it so much easier to edit together.

Second and Final Preliminary Task :