Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task

           When i first found out that my task was to create a short 30 second thriller which involved 4 lines of dialogue with two characters, i was quite excited. I imagined it to be a good experience, good practise and a chance to see whether my choices of groups would benefit my learning. I chose Alexander bailey as my partner and we got straight into creating. We first drew up our storyboard using ideas generated from both me and Alex. We then started to plan the mis en scene for the video, which was quite frustrating because we both had different visions but allowed us to elaborate on each others ideas and we also built a better, more stable partnership between us. Once we finished planning we then thought of actors which we could use to star in our short clip. We were motivated and got straight on with the filming.

Monday 16th January

 Day 1: We looked at a few thrillers including 'Se7en' as our main influence. The research we did helped us think of ways to use lighting, editing and sound to really construct our film. We used a drama room in which we 'booked' out which had the proper lighting and props for us to use. We mainly used one spotlight which was on our characters to give a dark scary room effect. both our characters were very useful, but using only having two hours to complete our clip we had to rush. The costumes for characters were not as useful as expected, and we were let down a bit because of how we pictured the actors to look. However, in our first day we nearly finished filing apart from our final clip which we could finish the next day.

Friday 22nd January

 Day 2: Our second day involved us being introduced to the editing system we would use to complete our clip. since we had not finished our filming we had to complete our last part to the clip. this only took half our lesson which gave us the rest of the time to get a start on editing. as we were new to the system we weren't very effective in editing and we were just trying to find out how to navigate and use the program. 

Monday 27th January

Day 3: Our third day was mainly about the editing of the clip. As our clip is over a minute long, it needed cutting down to 40 seconds. it was meant to be 30 seconds, but being as it is it wouldn't make sense and wouldn't look realistic if it was any shorter.

Dialogue
The dialogue for the preliminary task was a necessary part of the criteria. As the start of the film begins, the victim is in a captured position tied to a chair. the lines of dialogue really make the scene seem real as he is crying for help. as the other character enters the room, the next line of dialogue allows the audience to know that the victim is scared creating tension. The names of the actors are 'Cameron' and 'Daniel' as we have no names for them in the clip.

Cameron: "Help, Help!"
(Daniel enters)
Cameron: "Hello, Who are you?"
Cameron: "Please Help me"

Daniel: "Groans and laughs"