Brief:
Continuity task involving filming and editing a 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.
This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot, and the 180-degree rule.
- Your ability to plan and construct media products using appropriate technical and creative skills
- How you apply your knowledge and understanding in evaluating your own work showing how meanings and responses re-created.
- Your ability to undertake, apply and present appropriate research.
In our short film, our actors will be Georgia Lansbury who will be playing a victim/kidnapped girl, and Samuel Bysouth whose role will be the french capturer. Our setting will be in the drama room in our school so we have access to lighting that we can adjust. The mise-en-scene in our film consists of:
costume- Our victim is wearing pale colours to suggest that she is an outcast and a blurred figure. She is also Blonde as we will be filming in a dark place so her hair will stand out and therefore be seen. Our capturer will be wearing a black suit to suggest that he is wealthy and a much higher status than the girl. His hear is also big and curly and he looks foreign.
lighting- dim and dark to suggest danger and a tense atmosphere
props- a chair which the victim will be tied to.
Analysis of final preliminary task:
Looking back over our final film, there are many things that i would change but there are also some aspects that i love about it an will use to help me create our final task.
Weaknesses
One of the main weaknesses in our performance was arranging to actually film our short thriller. When it comes to actually filming for our final task, I Will make sure that we are more organised and prompt with our rehearsal times.
Lighting was one of the main issues with our production. We had planned our setting to be dark and dreary which would have been perfect in creating a thrilling and tense atmosphere. Unfortunately, this only gave us more problems to sort out when it actually came to the filming. We were in our school drama room with access to stage lights to play around with. What seemed bright to us in the room, on camera, was too dark and took away any other features in the film. Because of this, we had to film our production more than four times to get the lighting as good as we could get it.
We also had some problems with our tripod. We wanted to use a tripod to prevent from any shakiness that might occur if someone was holding the camera by hand. But using the tripod stopped us from shooting certain types of shots. At one point in our short film, we have a shot of someones feet then then gradually rises up to the back of their shoulder which then forms an 'over the shoulder' shot. We couldn't use the tripod for this so we had to depend on my steady hand. Luckily it worked but it might not have done in another situation. If i want to use this particular shot next time, i will make sure that we look at every angle of shooting it before using my 'steady hand'.
Strengths
Good aspects of our film i think was our choice of characters. The two characters that we used were very different and diverse. One was a boy with really curly, brown, big hair. He looked foreign which then decided to use as a feature of his when filming. We asked him to put on a french accent. This worked really well. Not only did it sound good, but having the man french, gave another feature that was completely different to the victim. This also would have made the victim feel more tense as he is from a different country to them.
Overall, I think our first attempt of making a short thriller film was a sucess. We managed to stick to our brief and contain the features that we were asked to put in. It has now left us with more experience and an idea of what things work and what things dont work when trying to film a production. Here is our storyboard for our premilinary task:
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