Filming Progress; Preliminary Task

For the last few Media lessons and free periods or lunchtimes, our small class has split into 2 groups of 3 to make filming the task easier and allowing everyone to do something towards this task which is to cover we know the 180 Degree Rule, Match on Action and Shot Reverse Shot.

The image to the left is the TV/ Filming Studio which includes a blue/green screen behind on the wall, a computer specialised in film editing on the left hand side, 2 decent HD cameras, and a set of mics and lightning equipment.

In terms of health and safety, we moved all unused wires and lights in the TV studio to aside to avoid tripping over during filming and setting up.

On the 1st day in the studio, we did a little read through a little script (thriller, crime based) that my peers and I came up with to bring some enthusiasm into the task regardless of its simple and easy targets we will have to meet, as well as testing the lighting on the left image so that the lighting shines dominantly on the suspect in a room which would almost be considered 'dark'.

For the short task, we planned on doing an interrogation scene of a suspect and a detective (me) in line with the 'Thriller' theme we aim to present through our coursework. It's a simple scene where I enter a room and try to get the suspect to admit something to which I am then handed a briefcase to which I open up and after a flash of darkness the suspect is lying on the floor with the detective saying a few last words and exiting the scene with a suspense of mystery to how the suspect died and what was the investigation? What was the suspect accused of? A series of unanswered questions that gives thriller films like 'The Birds' an interesting ending of mystery.

In these 2 images, we are setting up 2 cameras so that one is behind me and the suspect in a 180 degree essence. We were also setting up the briefcase as our dominant prop where we experimented with trying to light it up from the inside with our phones to give the impression of something  important an valuable inside. We dropped this idea after the effects not catching up the cameras, but it's worth considering this method of lightning in the post- production/ editing stage.

To keep with the continuity aspect needed to pass the task, we've made sure as a group that the room stays as it is and that we keep constant in our outfits in shots especially as we end up filming over one day easily. It's fortunetly a locked room in which our teacher has the keys for, so it only involves going to his office and asking for his keys to get in the room filming.

So far we have filmed most of the task inside the TV studio with enough shots (and bloopers for that matter) to give us enough choice of best audio/ shots when editing sooner or later.