Preliminary Task- Planning and Filming

Preliminary Task

Brief

Film and edit a 30 second film sequence in which a character enters a room, sits opposite another character and they exchange at least four line of dialogue. Including, camera skills, mise en scene, editing and sound.

The grouping was me, Esha and Sheree. We went to a separate room and brainstormed ideas for the storyline of our film sequence. We mind mapped themes and plots, as well as camera angles, mise en scene and editing for each one.

We decided not to focus on the plot as much and focus mainly on the editing, mise en scene, camera and sound, so instead we chose to have the plot of one character walking through the school, meeting one person in which they exchange a piece of paper with, continuing walking until they reach the canteen, where they meet another character, exchange dialogue and they hand over the paper, in which the sequence title with appear on.

We worked together on our storyboard exchanging ideas on camera angles, editing and location. We went out through the school the find locations that would work on our storyline, then wrote them on the storyboard. When it came to the sound, we decided that we should use a song that created tension but was also something that could quite easily be listened to everyday. We decided to use Kasabian- Thick as Thieves as it gave the tension and suspense we were aiming for, but they were a current and popular band.

We decided that casual everyday clothing, preferably dark would suit the genre more, and that doing the acting ourselves. Me playing the character walking through school, Esha playing the person I encountered on my way, and Sheree the person in the canteen. In order to ensure we would all be involved in the filming, we decided that there would be a section that would be hand held as I'm walking to the canteen, then as I walk into the canteen their would be a point of view shot of approaching the door then opening it.

This is our completed storyboard:

We tried to include as many camera angles and terminology so that we would understand how we wanted to film in when the time came.

When we were filming, we each took part in the filming. We made sure that we all came to school in suspicious looking clothing, such as long coats and black clothing.We followed the storyboard as best as we could, but had to change a few shots because they didn't work. We also added shots, for example, we film the encounter between me and Esha many times from different angles and distances to give us more to work with when we edited. We also had to re-shoot scenes because of walking to fast or not walking far enough.