The shot list is
produced by the director of the group as a way for the cameraman to know what
shots to take during the filming of the opening scene. This will help see what
camera shots are the most effective to use during the filming the director created a shot list using
footage already recorded and ideas from his storyboard to discuss the cinematography
to be used in the groups opening scene.
Character
representations are the specific aspects of a character. Characters are
normally presented through stereotypes. For example the protagonist of a film
is usually a white attractive male, a victim is normally a blond female because
it is a stereotype that blond females are unintelligent so they are of
portrayed as a victim. The racial people so anyone that is not white is
normally casted as the antagonist in the film. What they wear also affect the
way they are presented for example if an protagonist wore a suit you would
think they are intelligent, if an antagonist wore red you would think they were
evil and seductive and if a woman was to wear white it would show purity and
innocence.
Name: Unknown (Emeka)
Character role: Antagonist- this character is the
antagonist. He is represented as the antagonist because he is a racial person
and people of any race other than white are normally seen as antagonist in
films.
Age: 17
Gender stereotype of role: Black and muscular to show that he has
threat to whoever is the protagonist and the victims of the story.
Costume: He wears black clothing in order to
show that he is evil and deceptive. This makes the audience more scared of the
antagonist. He also wears a mask which will make him look mysterious as you
don’t know his identity.
Hair and Make-up: There’s no hair and make-up as he is
wearing a hat and he is wearing a mask.
Body language and facial expression: His body language is really
frightening because he is different emotions at once and his body language
shows it. However you can’t see his facial expression as he is wearing a mask.
Represented as: This character is represented as a mysterious
and a frightening being as his identity is unknown. In the opening scene he is
presented as the antagonist
Role within the narrative: This character is the main antagonist of
the opening scene. He trains the other antagonist into being just like him. He
trains him to copy him and dress like him so that he can have his own little
apprentice. He and the little boy move down a road which suggest he is up to
mischief with the boy.
Name: Unknown (Tyler)
Character role: antagonist-this character was
originally a victim but was made into an antagonist by the main antagonist of
the opening after he trained him to become a copy of him.
Age: 16
Gender stereotype of role: He is a male and males are normally
shown as antagonist as it is a stereotype that males are more threatening than
women. He is also coloured and it is a stereotype for coloured people to
be antagonist.
Costume: he
wears dark clothing which connotes that he is up to no good= and that he is a
mysterious person.
Hair and
make-up: there is no hair and make-up as you don’t see his face
and hair.
Body language
and facial expression: his body language and facial expression is originally
innocent as originally he is a victim but since he turned into an antagonist
his body language turns aggressive.
Represented
as: this characteris
represented as an innocent victim at first but is later represented as an
antagonist as he was turned into an antagonist by the other antagonist.
Role in
narrative: this character is the other antagonist in the opening
scene. He was originally an innocent kid but the other antagonist took him
under his wing and made him some sort of apprentice of his.
The purpose of the preliminary task is for
the group to be familiarized with editing and camerawork this has also helped
us work in a group as we have never worked like this in a group before. Most of
us hardly use video cameras so we weren’t familiar with the buttons and know to
adjust the camera or view the videos we took. Since I am going to be the camera
man for the final product Emeka was the camera man for the preliminary task.
This helped us learn how to use the camera properly to know how to use it for
my final product. I was the one acting in it along with Umut this helped us
know what the acting process is like and is going to help him prepare for the
final product.
The
scenario
The scene
starts with me and umut are talking about what we should do for our course work
and umut is not trying hard enough to think about an idea and is not bothered
with the work.
I try and motivate him to do the work
and say it is important because we will get a low grade if he doesn’t try
harder.
He tries to
act like he is getting involved but he makes a stupid suggestion. He suggested
that our coursework should be about two people talking about the video game
‘Fifa’.
I say that
that is a stupid idea because you can’t be talking about video games for
important course work and I said we will get and F grade if we do that.
Umut says
that he’s not going to comment on what I said because he thinks that his suggestion
is actually a legitimate suggestion and he thinks it might actually get us a
good grade.
Group roles
for the preliminary task filming. Has this now changed for the final one?
Cameraman: the camera man is the person filming
the scene.
Emeka was the
one filming the preliminary task. It was originally umut that was filming but
he wasn’t doing it well so Emeka offered to take the camera instead. Emeka wasn’t
the best camera man because his hands weren’t steady and you can see that when
watching the scene. Because of this we decided that I am going to film for the
final thing because neither of them were good using the camera.
Actors: Me and Umut were acting in the
preliminary task. Because me and Umut had done drama related courses in the
past so we have experience of acting. This is why we were chosen instead of
Emeka. For the final opening scene since I was put on the camera for the final
task Emeka is acting and Umut has left our group so he isn’t involved in the
final task in anyway.
Editing: for the preliminary task we all took
part in editing in order for us to find out who was the best at it. When we
were doing it we found out that I was the best at editing since I knew a lot
about editing programs already. So we decided that I should be the one editing
for the final task.
Difficulties we encountered with
filming
Some of the
difficulties we encountered while filming were things such as were we the right
place is the film the preliminary task because we were trying to find the best
place for lighting and objects in the scene. The way we overcame this was by
finding a place where there was good lighting in order for it to be clear. A
difficulty Emeka encountered problems with filming over the shoulder shots
because he couldn’t seem to get the right angle. He overcame this by repeatedly
trying different ways to get the over the shoulder shots and in the end he got
the right angles.
Difficulties we encountered while
editing
Some of the
difficulties we encountered while editing include things like learning how
final cut pro works. None of us had ever used final cut pro before, even though
I used another editing program called Sony Vegas it was far different from
final cut pro. The way we overcame this difficulty was learning how to use it
while using the program because we found out how the program works.
What I learned
While going through
this preliminary task we learned who was the best at doing what in our group. We
found out I was the best at editing and filming and we found out that Emeka was
the best at acting and using sound. I learned how to use final cut pro as an
editing program because I normally use something else and I also learned how
the camera worked.
Conclusion
Doing this
preliminary task has helped us get familiarized with the process of filming an
opening scene. This task has helped us decide who is doing what in out opening
scene. It has helped me learn how to use the camera and final cut pro and it
has helped Emeka develop his work with sound.
The client release form is a legal document that
discusses the terms and agreements for any actor participating in our thriller
opening. The cast needs to be informed on what exactly they are getting
themselves into by participating in the thriller opening.
This is our client release form:
Risk
assessment
The risk
assessment is an analysis of location and risk and
you will need to identify what risks might arise and how you plan to overcome
them every part. Everyone taking part in this production has to sign the risk
assessment so they know what risk they would be taking while participating in
the production.This is a legal document meaning that they must
have a copy of this document.
This is our risk assessment:
Production
schedule
Production schedule is a summary of everything that is going
to happen in your opening scene. This document includes stuff like who is
participating in the opening scene and where it’s going to be set and what time
we are doing it.
This is our production schedule:
Location
recce
This document is a summary of the location that
you have decided on suing within the thriller opening. This document needs to be given to everyone
participating in the opening scene so that they are all informed about the
location where it’s set.
This is our location Recce:
Location release form
This document is a legal document that discusses the terms
and agreements including the; company, council and people that are allowing you
to film within their location. This document
should be given to the company you may be filming in so that you can get their
approval.
