Final Preliminary Task

Preliminary Process

PLANNING
In Media, I am doing the Preliminary task, this is a 30 second film that has to contain several technical codes, such as match on action, shot-reverse-shot and the 180ᵒ rule. It also has to include a certain character opening a door and viewing it from outside the room and then inside; crossing a room and sitting down opposite another character and 4 lines of dialog. We chose the groups that we were put in and I felt that we worked fairly well together; at the beginning of the task before planning we shared our ideas and pieced them together - the final idea had a part of everyone's idea in it. We then decided to create our storyboard, to make it fair we all had a turn of drawing two of the scenes. After that we wrote down the dialog, I found this rather difficult because I feel that in this specific idea that we had it would've suited it better if we had no dialog, unfortunately we had to include it.(23/01/12)

Dialogue

"What is wrong?"

"What's that?"

"You're next?"

"What have you done!?"





STORYBOARD

FILMING

After we had finalised our idea we began filming, we used several techniques to dim the lighting and make it brighter with only the use of sunlight, at the start of filming we found the lack of artificial light a slight problem as it was hard to see the characters faces and actions, therefore we opened the blinds slightly and throughout filming opened them according to how we needed the light to be in that specific scene; not only did we use the blinds to adjust the  light, we used reflectors and diffusors. Although, we know how the camera works we couldn't use the camera as we didn't have enough people in the group to swap the role, in the main task we will be rotating the role of the camera so everyone in the group has an equal share therefore getting the grades we desire. Our group found it fairly stressful at the beginning, but I believe that this is only because it was a new experience for all of us. When we got into the roles and knew what we were doing we found it easier to focus.

EDITING

I found the editing enjoyable because it was a time in the project where everyone could discuss and have a laugh with how things are looking. We have included audio transitions, video transitions and our own images such as the title screen below. One of my main roles in the editing was choosing the background music and the end sound for the film, I found the songs and uploaded them to Adobe Premier Pro. We all took turns in the editing process, I had to make the title screen and do a lot of the transitions.

A print-screen of the editing process