Thursday, 17 February 2011

Pre-production of our preliminary task

When planning our preliminary task, we had to first start of by storyboarding our ideas.
We found this useful as we started to develop ideas on mise-en-scene, cinematography, sound and editing; alongside with technical features such as how many seconds each shot will be and camera compositions.
By storyboarding our ideas the filming process will be more accessible, and we have a basis plan which could be developed if we face any situations when filming.

To get a better insight into what the task required we watched previous years preliminary videos and evaluated them. This was good as we started to understand the aims and objectives, and how we should go about this task. We found out things which were successful such as keeping it simplistic and original for example a coversation between a teacher and student. We also found out things which we should not do such as not using the correct equipment; groups who filmed with a hand held camera looked silly and unproffessional whereas when using a tripod clips looked sleek.

We had to incoporate the 180 rule, match on action shot and shot-reverse-shot into the task to show our understanding. whilst in the pre-production stage we had to share out roles and responsibilities equal; to make our group diverse and to take pressure off other members.

This was a fun stage as we got the chance to be creative, whilst getting used to what we will need to develop for our thriller.

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