In the first lesson, we were introduced to the course which would be worth 50% of our AS grade, and we went through the course outline such as deadlines, the blog and setting it up, as well as the different tasks set, involving the use of cameras and editing. The Preliminary Task would be a small taster into out Thriller Task later on in the course and it would help with understanding the next task more and have experience with the camera and with editing.
Myself (Philippa Klymowskyj) and Alexandra Hacker decided to work together on the Preliminary Task and we started to plan, thinking about what genre to use, ideas about the script, possible locations for the filming and what sort of shots to use within filming. We discussed the ideas together and started planning, writing our thoughts down.
We considered elements such as the 180 degree rule, action matching and shot-reverse-shot within our planning, as well as the sound and deciding whether we would use music within our preliminary task. We decided upon a plan for our preliminary task to be in the crime genre and a detective would be going to a lab, getting the lab results for a murder from one of the assistants/workers. We began discussing the order of the camera angles and the shots we would use, as well as the dialogue accompanying the task.
Many things changed as we began discussing them more and more. Camera shots changed and more were added as we plan to have quick cuts at the start and slower when there is dialogue within the scene. We began thinking more about where the camera would be placed when taking a shot and where exactly the actors would be within the shot, as well as which shot to use. The dialogue became more scripted, adding directions within it, finding that the script needed to flow and the camera shots needed to be clear, ready for filming.
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