How We Filmed The Preliminary Task

For this task i worked in a group of five to film as short sequence:
Actor 1 - Alexandra
Actor 2 - Marriella
Director - Louise
Assistant Director/Cotinuity -

We had to fulfill certain criteria that was given to us in the form of a storyboard showing a variety of different shots and angles that we were set the task of capturing. We also had to find our own props which were to act as signifiers to give a background to our story. In our piece we chose to use street life and so we dressed the actors in hooded outfits with cap hats and we used a spray can as our main signifier object. The storyline we came up with for our short prelim was simply a thug covincing another person vandalise a wall with sray paint.

Filming
To begin with we fimed the whole scene in a wide shot. We did this so we would be able to cut back at anytime during editing and so we could create continuity. Also by shooting a wide shot first of the whole story we managed to capture a number of shots in one take and this saved us time in the long run and meant that we could be finished filming in the time we had. By having capturing this wide shot of the whole thing we also got the shots 1, 4, 7, 11.

After having filmed the wide we then filmed the whole story again as part of an over the shoulder shot to show the persective of one the characters. We then added a closeup of the character to show a reaction shot of his face. This covered shots 2, 5, 9, 10. This shot diplayed emotion to the audience and allowed one to empathize with the character, it also gave variaion to the prelim. We then repeated these shots from the other characters perspective, agin by filming the whole sequence. These shots covered the frames 3, 6, 8, 12; and meant that we had covered all that was demanded by the sheet within five takes. As a result we finished early and consequently decided to film to extra shots to give our piece some more variation and make it stand out from the other groups in the class. We added a close up pan of the spraying can being passed from one character to the other and an extreme closeup o the spraying can to establish our signifier object.

Prelim Storyboard