Preliminary Task - Finished Product

This is the finished edited piece that we have produced. I am extremely happy with the way it came out and I am happy with the way my group worked together.

Preliminary Task - Editing

After filming we had to edit the video. Ashufta and I had never had any expeiriance in editing and unfortunitely our editing software was not working during the lesson. Therefore Chiska took the footage home and edited it on behalf of the group. Obviously, this holds me and Ashufta back as we still have never edited but I will make sure that I have had some practise before I do my proper film.

Preliminary Task - Filming

When we finally finished the planning stage, we were ready to film. The location we used to film was the media block at college, as it provided all the right things we needed for instance a dark room we could use for the drug deal, and a corridor leading up to it. As I was the main character in the short film and was in every shot, I was unable to film any of the scene. This does not matter as I have used cameras in filming in the past but when I film my actual piece I will need to make sure I am involved in the filming side of things. We tried to use a variety of shots in our film to make it more interesting to watch, for instance when dialogue was being exchanged we used shot reverse shot to show the contrast in character and to show that they are enemies. We also used a very interesting shot at the end of our piece. The shot was of the camera filming me (Rizzo) holding a gun in the point of view of Chiska (C-money) but it was focused in on the gun and not my face. This helped in force that C-money was in a very vulnerable and dangerous position. To steady the shots, we used a tripod so the filming would look smooth and professional. Me, Ashufta and Chiska worked extremely well together while filming and co-operate well as a team, which is why we will be filming our main task together.

Preliminary Task - Storyboard

Now we began to put our ideas for the preliminary into a storyboard. The storyboard had to include the types of shots we were going to use and how it was going to be filmed and how long for etc. Here are the finished products:

Planning the Preliminary Task

Firstly to plan the Preliminary task we first of all brainstormed our ideas of what the storyline should be. We stemmed off a lot of ideas, but the one that seemed to stand out was a drug exchange. We decided on a drug exchange in a warehouse with two characters, C-money, the dealer, who was going to be played by Chiska and Rizzo, the drug addict, played by me.  

We decided that in the lesson of filming, we will shoot our short film at college, because it provided the environment we needed, which was a dark room. We also came up with the stage directions dialogue that would be exchanged by the two characters:

Rizzo: You got the gear?
C-money: Give me the money first.
(Rizzo throws the money over, then C-money  counts it and throws drugs over.)
(Rizzo tastes drugs.)
Rizzo: What's this shit?
(Rizzo gets angry and points gun at C-money.)
Rizzo: Get on your knees! I wanna hear you PRAY!

For the props we will be using a bag full of flour for the drugs, which I will bring in, and we are going to borrow a gun from the drama department.

We now needed to draw out our storyboard.

Introduction to Preliminary

Brief

For my first task in my media coursework I have chosen to work with Chiska and Ashufta. The task was to make a short 30 second video of two characters walking into a room, sitting down and exchanging a few lines of dialogue.