Pre-Production Prelim Task

Prelim Task Pre-Production

Task: Our task was to construct a short sequence as a piece of moving image using the stimulus;

A character opens a door, crosses a room and sits down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.

The stimulus was not so specific so we had to be completely creative, we found it difficult to come up with scenes we could create.

Firstly to come up with our Production we brain stormed some Ideas; organising them into important categories. Our 4 Categories were Characters, Setting, Scenario and Scene. This enabled us to visualise the scenes that might occur and how we would portray it. Our group decided to create a police interrogation. This would involve a criminal “Selina” and the Police Officer which would “introduce” the audience to the Interrogation. Thus, we visualised our production through our brainstorm and started to make our Script.

Pic of Script...

Then we went on to Location Scout to understand our setting and what could be done in the spaces available. We discussed originally that we had to have a setting that portrayed an “interrogation”. It had to be dark and eliminate signs of being in a school. The Dark room was the best option we had and to create tension/suspense we experimented with the lighting; a swinging lamp would create this…

Fortunately in the dark room there was a red light available which we decided would enhance our scene further. We used props according to what was needed during Production so we didn’t plan that beforehand finding this way easier. We were thinking that music could be added in the editing process once we found appropriate sounds.

After Location Scouting we made the storyboards, making our sequence in order. The Storyboards can be seen below.

After which our Shot List was created.

We saw it most suitable to use actors that were not in our group so we could all organise and film the sequence together, only as extras we added ourselves in. Our Cast can be seen below...

Finally after completing the Pre-Production we booked our times for the camera’s and prepared for our Shooting!