Preliminary Task!!!!

This post is all to do with our PRELIMINARY TASK!

The task that was assigned to us was relatively simple, to produce a 45 second clip which contained an exchanging of dialogue between two characters. The clip needed to have a wide range of camera angles, involve match on action and the 180 degree rule, (all things I will post explanations of later). I believe we were given this preliminary task to help us gain new skills and get familiar with the camera’s and the software we would be using in the upcoming months.

First off we needed to form a group; I chose to go into a group of 4 containing all people I felt were trustworthy and hard working. The group being Michael Casson, Robert Schwarz, Billy Nairn and Myself. We all sat down and gathered our ideas together, the easiest way to do this was to create a quick spider diagram. After removing the ideas that were deemed impossible to do with the equipment available we were left with a clip loosely based around the mystery/thriller genre.

Once we had arrived at the decision for the clip to be a mystery/thriller genre we had to come up with a location in which to shoot the clip. The location needed to fit in well with the chosen genre so we needed a place that would seem sort of creepy yet have the required resources that we need to shoot a good clip i.e. lighting etc. After much thought we decided on the old science corridor, which is no longer in use, this seem to fit in well with our chosen needs. Here is a picture of our chosen location:

Before we set about filming we decided on making a story board showing step -by -step shots which we could piece together and create our clip, here is a picture of our story board: