Continuity Task - Idea

For our continuity task our idea is to do unrequited love. The woman is stalking the man as she is obsessed with him however the man doesn’t know and feels uncomfortable as he sub-consciously knows someone is there. We decided to do this as it links in with our actual final idea being that the woman is once again obsessed with a man. This will help us as a group know what we have to improve on when making it clear to our audience that the women is more dominant.

Shot list - Continuity Task

This is a list of our shot list. The ones with a red tick, we have already filmed.

Storyboard for Continuity Task

For our story board we decided to do it in sections so we can take on Sophie’s advice and swap them around if we needed to. This has really helped us we had to change some of the clips around as when we were filming we realised it didn’t work how we thought it would.

Continuity Task

We have been given a small task to help us prepare for our final piece. We have to make a 60 second clip and it can be about anything. This is to help us know what we need to do more research/work on to help us come out with the best intro we can produce. We have to include the following:

·         Do not break the 180 degree rule

·         Include Shot-reverse-shot

·         Include a variety of appropriate camera angels

·         Edit so that continuity is apparent and meaning is clear

·         Include more than one location

·         Interaction between characters

·         Include some non-diegetic sound

StoryBoarding Talk

In this lesson a girl called Sophie came into our lesson to help us with our understanding of story boarding and animatic as that is her profession. Sophie gave us 3 top tips to use when storyboarding, they are:

1)      Bullet point your story board so you have an idea of what to draw.

2)      When drawing your story board don’t worry about it being in order.  You will      find you will change it around. You can put it in order at the end.

3)      Remember the rule of thirds.

Sophie helped me a lot this lesson and and has helped me have more of an understanding of the importance of story boarding and i now know the rule of thirds.

Rule of thirds: a grid split into three equal sections. If you want the character to be notices then you make sure they are in the centre. If they aren’t as important then you marginalize them

Animatic: animated storyboard timed.

_{­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­}above is the example of an animatic compared to the final piece.

Location - Connor Barbors Blog

This Blog is great! As a group we get a idea of how certain clips are going to look and it starts to make everything look real.  As a group we liked how the Females house was bigger as it symbolised her as being dominated and wealthy which links in to her being the red herring as she’s the attacker. The location of both houses are brilliant for us as they are so close to school and one of which is Hannah's which makes it even better. Easy to get to and from. Overall this blog is really good as it allows the group to see what we have to work with and how we can present certain things.

StoryBoarding

To help us with Our Storyboarding we watched a 15 minute clip of the importance of a Story Board. From this I found out that the story board helps saves money as it gives the director direction of what they want to achieve and helps prevent mistakes.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwqL5_825rI

Above is the link to the video we watched.

We then were given the task of making our own storyboard for the chase in a film called 'Terror in the Night'. I have never done this before and my pair wasn't in so i was all alone.I learnt that we had to use mention the camera angle, movement, position, how long the shot lasts and the sound, non-diegetic and diegetic. also include dialogue if there was any.