Preliminary Task - Our Idea

We've been beginning our preliminary task which consists of filming and editing a scene in which a character opens a door, crosses a room, sits down in a chair opposite another character and then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. In this task we need to demonstrate: match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180degree rule.

We also have to create an A3 poster to go alongside the preliminary task using Adobe Photoshop.

At the end of the preliminary task we will have to evaluate our work via a set of questions and then recorded as a podcast.

Production Team:Editor: Alexander Mulley  AJ's Blog
Camera: Ryan Denney  Ryan's Blog
Director: Beatrice Brown

Deadlines:
Pre-Production: Present Day to November 18th
Production Window: 19th November to 26th November
Post Production: 27th November to 12th December
Presentation Day: 15th December

Over the next few lessons i hope to learn how to use a camera and a tripod properly and some directing skills.

For the preliminary task our initial idea is that our two characters exchanging dialogue within our scene will be agents having an argument in a library (we chose this location so that the characters have to hold back in their argument and the aim is to make the audience feel tense). The idea is that they used to be friends and another agent caused their argument and one is accusing the other of having murdered the third agent. At the end of the short film the two characters will see the third character that will not recognise them.