Preliminary Task - Planning our film

Planning our film

During the preliminary task, different roles were allocated based on the different skills of the individual. Me and Robert did the camera work and lighting making sure it was appropriate to the quality we wanted to prove we had. Connor acted due to him doing A - Level Drama and having experience in that field, he played the criminal. We recruited Mattie who also does A – Level drama as we wanted another skilled actor to play the role of the detective. I volunteered to do camera work and lighting because I believe I have a good eye for that area and we had already found skilled actors to play the roles we needed. Robert also did the camera work and lighting as he is very good with technology and he knew what he was doing. It was very beneficial having two people on camera duty and lighting because it meant we could be efficient and had a second opinion on all shots we took. Connor fitted the role of the criminal very well because of his experience in drama, he used brilliant facial expressions to portray the scared, emotional criminal we wanted in our film.

For the initial ideas, Me, Connor and Robert all had input and Connor came up with an excellent script which depicted our idea perfectly. We sort of knew what kind of plot we wanted to film, we figured an interrogation would be the best way use alternative camera angles and play around with the script.

For the storyboard, myself and Robert worked together on it. From the script and our initial ideas, we created a storyboard which showed the basic camera shots we used. In this storyboard, I described the lighting, camera angles and the action that was taking place. Although we didn’t use many of the different shot types I believe we used a sufficient amount to display our keen eye for angles, lighting and our camera ability. I was the one to draw the storyboard using basic drawings to show the camera angles we used.