Preliminary Task: Story Board

To make sure that the film makes sense to the viewer/audience we made sure we planned out the story by drawing a storyboard. This includes the character's actions and the camera angles that we are going to use. We did this because we wanted a rough idea of what we wanted to make and how we wanted to do it.

To begin we have an establishing shot of the interrogator walking outside into a building, this will have a dark setting and the music will come in to set the mood for the entire clip.

Afterwards we have a match on action of the interrogator walking through the door, as he goes to open the door the camera will be outside and as soon as he walks through the camera will cut to it being inside and showing the interrogator walking through the door.

Then we have a dolly shot which will follow the interrogators movement from in front of the man and then after that we have a panning shot of the man walking towards the door which will pan slowly to the left and show him walking into the interrogation room.

Inside the room we have an over the shoulder shot of the criminal with a 'bag' over his head and the interrogator will ask his assistant to remove the bad from the criminals head to reveal his identity.

After the interrogator removes the bag from the criminal's head, they begin to have a conversation with a mid shot of the table and the characters. This scene will have the 180 degree rule and an eye-line match for the rest of the scene/conversation. The conversation will last for a short amount of time before the interrogator will ask his assistant to put the bag over his head to cover up his vision. The interrogator will angrily leave the room and shortly after, his assistant will say his line and then leave the room as well. That is when the movie will finish.

The shot list is going to help us in our work because it gives us a much better idea of what kind of shots to get and also it helps us know what we want to film before we're there instead of getting there and making it up on the spot which is better because it doesn't waste as much time when getting there and it means we can get on with filming straight away rather than spending valuable time thinking of what shots to do on location.

Preliminary Task: Genre

The genre that we have chosen to do is crime. This is because we wanted our genre to be a bit more unique compared to the cliche genres that are being used at the moment. This we feel is a good idea for the location we have chosen because of the lighting and location atmosphere. We want to make the location dark and plain like the genre of crime/thrillers, this means we have to do less work in order to make the it look good.

We've done some research into the genre that we are doing which is crime. We found that corridors and small rooms are good for crime scenes and movies due to small rooms being linked to interrogation rooms that are in police stations or even cells that prisoners stay in. The dark, spooky atmosphere adds the tension to the crime genre because less can be seen and it makes the audience think what might be going on or if a characters face is in the shadow it may draw the audience in because they want to know who that person is or what involvement they have in the movie/subject.

The camera angles we wanted to use also fit the genre because they are not fast paced, they move fairly slowly which adds to the tension that thrillers have and the camera angles are good because we get up close shots of the characters which can show their facial expressions which is good because the audience can figure out which characters are good and which are bad based on the camera angles and the facial expresses.

Name and Candidate Number

Joe French
2205