Friday, 17 October 2008

Conversation Evaluation - Story Pre-Production

SMR Media began production with a simple yet effective storyboard, on this storyboard we planned exactly what we were going to do, the camera angles, location and mise-en-scene, even though no extra marks were going to be awarded for this section. We decided on shooting in an office within the 6th form block, which was perfect for the kind of mise-en-scene that we are hoping to use within our two minute film opening. We also thought that we would need some kind of costume definition between actors so that some difference could be told, for this we decided to borrow a hat from the drama studio which was kindly offered to us by Mr. Alan Freeman. We were also hoping to borrow a trench coat, which would have been perfect for our 'detective' lead character within our conversation, but we were unable to obtain this due to it being in use at the particular time for which we were filming.

We got ideas for our storyboard from analysing older film openings within the genre we are going to use within our two minute film opening, including camera angles and other important factors. Overall we believe that all of the pre-production work that we experimented with helped alot when we came to officially filming our preliminary tast.

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