Preliminary Filming Planning.

In today's lesson we were put into groups (I am with Lucy Hickling, Emily Brookes and Melissa Hogg). In these groups we were set the preliminary task of filming and editing a continuous piece involving someone opening a door, sitting down before engaging in a short piece of dialogue with another character. The piece must contain shot-reverse-shot, match on action and stick to the '180-degree' rule.


We started the planning for this task. Our group decided on the theme of a lady walking into a room only to be faced with a well-known-mass murderer. 

See below the story board created during planning: 


 Lucy drew the pictures and wrote the ideas for each part of our short extract while the rest of the group gave and discussed ideas.

1. The first shot we are going to be filming is a forward tracking of the main character walking towards the door. This shot is going to be accompanied by creepy music to create suspense.
2. The shots being filmed in the next frame is a long shot of the mass murderer sat in the empty room. This shot is going to be accompanied by dramatic music.
3. In the third frame we are going to film a close up shot of the characters shocked expression before cutting to her hand and then to the cup as it hits the floor (to create our match on action). As the cup hits the floor there will be sound effects of the female gasping in shock and of the cup bouncing.
4. The next camera shot we are going to be filming is mid shots on each of the characters as they exchange the dialogue, these will be turned into shot-reverse-shot during the editing stage. The music accompanying this shot is going to build in tempo and be quietly playing in the background.
5. A reverse tracking shot will be filmed as the main character moves to sit down opposite the mysterious killer. The sounds effects used within this shot is going to be slow footsteps to demonstrate her reluctance to approach the killer.
6. More mid shots of the characters are going to be filmed as they exchange more dialogue before going to a close up of the killers face before cutting to a black screen. Before the screen goes black there is going to music overlaying the image of the killer's evil smile. This music we are planning to use is going to gradually build to a crescendo. 

During in the filming there are some props that we need to use, such as a cup to be dropped to show surprise, a table and chairs at which the killer and main character will sit at to exchange the dialogue. 
The characters are going to be dressed in casual everyday clothing, adding to the narrative enigma of the piece as the audience won't know that one of the characters is a killer until the main character reveals this.