In our first lesson back, we were told what our preliminary task was going to be. The preliminary task is to film a simple sequence of actions (someone walking in a room, dialogue with another character, walk out). This is the task we must do before our actual film. We were told our opening sequence was going to be a thriller, and so got to work on researching different themes and how they compare with each other. We watched the openings of Casino Royale- an action film, a thriller- Fargo, and another thriller and romance film. We drew a Venn diagram showing the main differences between the opening sequences of the different genres. This allowed us to analyse the different things we could use for our opening sequence of a thriller. We also watched other A-level thriller openings to help us understand the type of things that would be acceptable.
Another way in which we started to plan for our preliminary task was through the use of storyboards. We received a sheet with eight gaps in order for us to fill in with annotated diagrams of what our preliminary task was going to be like. In the boxes, we drew rough sketches of the sort of camera angles we are going to use, and the compulsory sequences (match on action shot, conversation/shot reverse shot, and somebody walking in and out again. We will follow this for when we shoot our preliminary task so as things run smoothly. Furthermore, in order for us to establish what shots we may use in our preliminary task as well as our real task, we filled in a sheet which contained various types of camera shots with the definition filled in- our job was to write down the effect of each shot. This was to help us establish when we should use a certain shot and what effect it would have on our piece.
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