Preliminary Task Pre-Production

For our preliminary excersise we were asked to film and edit a short clip which should include the following shot types and techniques:

• shot/reverse shot
• 180˚ rule
• match on action

Within a group of six, we had to come up with a story line for our clip involving a character/s walking to meet another character/s and sitting down to have a conversation, we put together all of our ideas and created a script and story board. 

We eventually put together a storyline, where a character receives a text from who he believes to be his 'lady-friend', asking him to meet her for the first time. He is excited by this, and rushes to find her. He is pointed in the right direction by fellow students and after a few various shots reaches the door of a classroom and looks through the glass window. The second character who he has come to meet is looking out the window, therefore has her back to him. As he enters the room 'she' begins to turn around, however the camera cuts to a close up of the first characters reaction before we get to see her. They exchange a few lines, with the camera still concentrating on the first character. The second character introduces herself  as 'Sammy' the 'female' he has been texting. The first character then runs out of the room, and we next see a pan shot from Sammy's feet to her face, revealing that she is in fact a male! The last two shots shows Sammy drop a rose he was holding, and then a match on action shot shows the rose falling to the floor. 

Alice Clarke was given the task of drawing the images on the storyboard, as she has done a lot of art in the past. We all discussed the order of the storyboards.