Preliminary Task

We have now been placed into our coursework groups which we will work in for our main project, the members of my group are Emily Kelly and Charles Ryder. The first practical task we have begun to carry out as part of our Media Studies course is our Preliminary Task. This will give us an opportunity to test out the skills we have newly learnt when it comes to actually storyboarding, filming and editing a short film. So far we have created a storyboard for our Preliminary Task, it is as follows;

A teenage girl is seen walking into a dark corridor, followed by another, curious girl. The 'Finder', as we called her in our storyboard, walks into the room at the end of the corridor to find a teenage boy tied to a chair and gagged. She rushes over to the boy in order to help him and discovers who it was that abducted him. In almost the same instant, the original girl the audience see walking into the corridor at the beginning of the piece appears from behind the 'Finder' and captures her too. The screen will then cut to black.

We like this idea as a Preliminary Task as it gives us multiple opportunities to include effective camera angles and shots such as 'shot-reverse-shot' and a 'match on action' to display the skills and techniques we have learnt so far. We chose to create a thriller/horror piece as there are many signs and signifiers that make it obvious that it is a thriller, and it was another opportunity to use many different camera skills.

Over the next week we will be filming and editing our Preliminary piece in order to upload it to YouTube in the near future.

This blog will be updated with developments in our piece in the near future.