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!
