preliminary exercise

On the 23 rd of January 2012 our media studies teacher Daniel Lowe introduced us into what was called a preliminary exercise, within this lesson we had to film a sequence about “ a character opens a door, walks into a room, sits down opposite another character and they share a few lines of dialogue”, at the same time while filming this sequence we were given rules:

1.       Make sure you use at least one match cut, which makes the action appear more seamless, time is meant to be continues.

2.       An example of a reverse shot, cuts from one person speaking to another, this is very useful in our sequence as it consist of a dialogue.

3.       Show your understanding of the 180 degree rule,

What is the 180 degree rule?

One of the first things we need to cover in making a movie is orientating the viewer, once you establish the scene, you have technically established the 180 degree rule for example if there are two people sitting opposite each other talking, then the viewer can easily establish were the man is sitting either on the left or the right and were the women is sitting, so anytime the camera shows these two people the man should be on the side he supposed to be ( left or right)  and also were the women is positioned( left or right). When the camera is place above their heads the placement of the camera can only go on the line that should be straight with both ends opposite each other meaning 180 degrees.

Within the task that we were set to do we had to figure what type of style our thriller should be and we were given options, it was either psychological, supernatural or action , and my group decided to choose supernatural  to emphasise unearthly, weird and the miraculous events to come. To plan our prelim film, we had to use story boards of our sequence then make it into a short “dramatic storyboard”, this was a bit difficult as group 6 are all terrible drawers but we got there in the end. Once the storyboard was out of the way then starting filming, we had to film quiet a number of times because I found it difficult to stop laughing.

The plot

Well our thriller is called paranoia and stars(Gustavo, mark and amber) and is about a young man who is paranoid , he hears “voices “ in his head and feel like someone is “ chasing him” and tries to seek help, form a professional before things start to escalate.