Preliminary Task

George, Ramtin, Sam and myself have been set the preliminary task to do over the next week to introduce us to the film making process. Our preliminary will be roughly 30 seconds long and contain the following criteria:

Match on action
Shot reverse shot
180 degree rule

The exercise we have been given must include...
Character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. We have come up with a storyboard involving a student and headmaster, where the student approaches the heads office, opens the door, and then has a conversation with him, therefore overall meeting the set criteria we have been given. We plan to have 8 shots in total, creating continuity editing all the way throughout with a sensible choice of non diegetic music and sound effects.

We started the storyboarding for our preliminary task in todays lesson, and managed to get all of our ideas down on paper so we have a guideline to work from when it comes to filming the piece. The storyboard we have produced explains each shot and camera position to allow us to cover all 3 of the technical codes in our first short clip, along with the camera shots, we also talk about what music we will be using at the start, as it needs to be royalty free, and sound effects throughout the preliminary. We will be editing the clips on Final Cut Express, installed on the Apple MacBook Pro systems at school. As Ramtin and George are quite experienced in editing, they know how to use the programme well, however Sam and myself may need a bit of tutoring! We plan on uploading all of our pieces onto the Flicka Films Youtube channel, which will be up and running shortly once we've finished the preliminary!

Filming for this task will begin next Tuesday (25th January 2011).