Preliminary Task Pre-Production

For our Preliminary Excercise we were asked to film and edit a short film showing examples of shot types and techniques. These were:

• Shot/reverse shot
• 180˚
  rule
• Match on action

The first thing we had to do was come up with a basic story line. In a group we put forward ideas for a short story before writing a script and drawing up a storyboard.

We came up with the idea that a character gets a text from his 'lady friend' asking him to meet her for the first time. He excitedly goes to find her, is pointed in the right direction by a few people and looks throught the door of a room. She is looking out of the window and has her back to him. He enters and she begins to turn around but the camera cuts to a close-up of his face before we can see 'her'. We see his reaction as they exchange a few lines but then she introduces herself as "Sammy" the woman he has been texting. He runs out of the room. Then a pan shot from "Sammy's" feet to her face shows that she is, in fact, a he! We see her drop a rose she was holding and match on action shows it dropping to the floor.

We thought this story line was really original and interesting - as it a had a comedy twist on it.

We came up with a simple script and I was given the task of drawing the storyboard, which I was confident with becasue I have done a lot of art in the past.