Theory

What I have learnt over the last 2 weeks working on the preliminary task

Firstly we brainstormed what we have learnt over the last 2 weeks, we then brainstormed any more questions we had .We then categorized these ideas into three group: Technology, Theory and questions.

These are things we came up with for theory.

Making Fake blood: To make our piece look more realistic we decided to make fake blood. Following a simple tutorial from the internet we made realistic looking blood, made from honey and red food coloring. we splatted this over the main charterer to make t look like they had killed someone. When it came to filming our piece, the camera picked up the fake blood and it looked real.

Script writing: two of our groups members wrote the script incorporating all the stage directions for others to see what was happening. we then learned the script ready for filming.

Story boarding: firstly we story boarded our scenes and our shot types to make sure that when it came to filming we already had everything covered. to do this we did rough sketches of each scene and how they would look through the camera lens, we also listed shot types we were going to use and matched them to each scene thinking which one would go where and how it would look in the final product.

Choosing right location: As we wanted it to be like a interview room we decided to use a confined space. We used our schools drama studio as we knew that it was a confined space and had the resources we needed such as chairs,desks and the  lighting board. The walls are also black giving the scene's a tense feeling..

Interpret text into a film: We ran through the script several  times to map out where we were going to stand and how we were going to deliver each line. We then did the each shot 3 times to make sure that we got it exactly where we wanted it to be, then we moved on to the next shot and did that 3 times and so on.

Using free time effectively: we decided to do our filming after school as we knew then we would have more time to get everything ready and take our time with each shot. This was very effective as we manged to get most of our shots. The shots we didn't get were the shortest ones and we knew that we could do them at a lunch time when there was less time.

To conclude i think we used our time effectively to make our preliminary task a success. We organised  our time well to story board, write the script and film our product to a good standard and then edited it in Final Cut Pro.