Preliminary Task

Storyboards for Preliminary Task
For our preliminary task we were expected to create a short video clip showing techniques we've learnt and conveying the correct process of how to use a camera. It had to contain a person entering the room, crossing the room and exchanging small dialogue with a second person already in the room. There had to be an exchange of an item from the first person to the second. Different camera techniques had to be included such as: a shot reverse shot, match on action and if necessary stick to the 180 degree rule. To begin we thought and drew up a storyboard to use as a guideline for our movie clip. This was useful although ideas that we originally thought of weren't all used.

The movie clip began with a zooming in shot to a close up of the first person being observed in a chair. We then cut the camera to a high angle close up shot to show the emotion in the person's eyes. We struggled to get a correct shot where we originally wanted to show more than one different facial feature but due to lack of knowledge were limited to just conveying the eyes. The person can be seen sitting tensely looking through a blank folder which we wanted to use to draw the audience in as to what he was looking at which was part of our main idea. The camera then cut to a close up of the door being knocked, and then cut to the outside of the door of a hand turning the handle and the second person being introduced. This was our match on action shot which was quite successful, we used it to introduce the second person. We then incorporated an over the shoulder shot from the first person showing the second person still in the frame. The second person is welcomed to sit down as there is an exchange in dialogue...
First Person: "I thought I told you not to come!" - We showed the reaction of the first person's face as this type of welcome was used to seem quite sinister and snappy.
Second Person: "Sorry boss... it's urgent... she's escaped boss." After this dialogue shot we wanted to cut to an over the shoulder shot from the first person but ended up continuing the scene on.
1st Person: "Why do you continue to disappoint me?" When including this line we also wanted to use props such as a cigarette and a lighter. In the end we left this out of the scene as we weren't able to do it. We thought it would have been good to use as the first person is supposed to seem quite high up in status and this reflects his personality and actions. There is a pause as we continued with this shot as we wanted the mobile phone along side the 1st person to ring. The shot was done correctly but as the phone was about to ring this interfered with the camera.
1st Person: "Hendrix I thought I told you to handle it!" This originally was the line we wanted to use but it changed at the last minute due to time. It was spoken over the phone none the less which was what we wanted for our shot. We were then going to have a close up shot as the camera follows the person's movements as his hand picks up the phone with the camera still focusing on him until it reaches his ear. This was also hard to shoot so instead we just kept the camera still and continued the shot on.
1st Person: "Tony's let me down gather your men but... I want her alive, DONT disappoint me!" The final shot was an over the shoulder shot of the 1st person handing the second person the item. For this we used a folder containing the words "Assignment 1" as this was what we called our movie clip. We did this also shooting a final over the shoulder shot from the 1st person and zoomed in slowly on the folder until our movie clip ended. We didn't really encount any main problems when filming our task as it was quite simple in what were expected to do. We tried to keep to the rules of the task as much as possible and so the film was quite successful considering the limited out of time.

Preliminary Task