Preliminary Task

For our Preliminary Task we were given a script and as a group of three we decided to make changes. My group consisted of me, Georgina , and Jess. There were four charcaters involved in the script so Jess therfore played 2 parts. Jess played the roles of Dani and Sam, I played a character called Toni and Georgina played the remaining character called Sonia.We were given freedom to change the narrative storyline of the script, so we therefore planned our film on a simple storyboard. We decided that the storyline should revolve around a conversation between the characters Toni and Sam, they would talk about their friend Sonia who hadn't returned home from last night.Toni decides to call Sonia to discover where she is and what has happened to her. Sonia replies that she is at the hospital and is therefore in a lot of trouble.


The opening scene begins with a shot of my feet in which we were trying to highlight the fact that I was in a rush. Georgina and Jess used a hand held camera to track my movement. We also experimented with 'a match on action' shot in which my other group members filmed me opening a door and the next shot was me walking out from the door. We also used an over the shoulder shot whilst me and Jess were sitting on the bench, to add a conversational effect and to really get the audience involved. Whilst filming outside we used a close up shot of my phone to show that I was actually calling Sonia, we also used an aerial shot indoors whilst Sonia and Dani were talking. To create an omniscient feel to the video. We then jumped to a shot of Sonia answering her phone, the next close up shot then shows the Toni after hearing the conversation, all of these shots show continuity editing. Finally we used a tracking shot to show Sam walking towards Toni, but to end our Preliminary task we used a medium close up shot to reveal Sam dropping her personal items as she hears the news.


To edit our footage we used a Macbook , we inserted several transitions and also added non- diegetic sound to add flow to our film and make it smother overall. Also we faded two shots together which in the long run was very effective and creative. I think that some of our editing could have been done better and therefore improved the overall quality of our film. As some of the editing made the shots seem jumpy and disconnected. We also should have considered that filming outside allows the weather to negatively impact our footage.However we each experienced filming,acting and directing our Preliminary Task.