Preliminary Task: Storyboard and Shotlist

To make sure that our film makes sense for the viewer/audience we had to make sure that we planned everything that we wanted to do. This includes what shots we want to achieve and how we are going to position the camera. This is so that we don't have to waste time planning the shots that we want to do. This also gives us an idea of the equipment that we are going to need for the shoot. all of the camera angles that we are going to use is on the storyboard.

So for the first scene we want a man to be walking to the interrogating room. This will be outside in a dark setting to set the mood for the rest of the short clip. this will be sort of a establishing show/ long shot of a man walking. This again helps set the mood for the rest of the film.

In the second scene we are having a match on action from the door into the corridor, this will be one of the clips that we have to do strait off. This will make it easier to do the other shots later on. hopefully this makes our work look more professional. This goes all the way through to scene 4 on our storyboard.

At scene 5 there will be a follow shot on the interrogator walking down the corridor. This may be a dolly shot or handheld, it all depends on what equipment we have on the day.

At scene 6 we are going to have a panning shot on the interrogator walking down the corridor. this is where we will see him getting closer to the interrogating room. From this shot we will get a close up on the door and him about to walk through it.

At scene 6 into 7 there will be a cut, to an over the shoulder shot of the interrogator walking in behind the suspect. This is how we want to introduce the suspect.

From here on out in the film we will be using the 180 degree rule and eye line match. These will be the only other scene's we have to have in. we feel that that this will hold the viewers interests and make our film look more appealing to people.

Preliminary Task: Genre

For our Preliminary task we decided to pick our genre as crime. the reason that we wanted to do this was to make it quite unique and stand out. This we feel would look quite good in the place that we are going to film in and the lighting in the area suits the type of genre that we want to do- dark and plain. This means we have to do a lot less work to make the scenes look good.

When we done a bit of research on crime films we found that it looks best for a darker setting. The reason for this it to create a much darker feel to our story. We were also lucky to have some small rooms which we are able to film in, these are also normally pretty dark which gives us a brilliant setting for a prison cell or interview room. The corridor connected to these rooms could be made darker giving it a more gloomy and ominous feel to the film. from these few rooms we could get some awesome camera angles which we could use to create a more effective feel.

We like the look and feel of this image as it gives us an idea of a creepy, unwanted corridor. We want our corridor to look a bit like this (same lighting) however a bit modern to give us the ideal look for a prison corridor. We want the lighting to reflect the mood of the prisoners in the cells, this we feel gives us a good feel of the overall film making it more appropriate. This we feel will make our film more professional.

(This image was copied from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dark_corridor_(4676385338).jpg)

Name and candidate number

Christopher Phillips            2284