Preliminary Task - What we have been asked to do

What we have been asked to do?
For our prelimary task, we have been first asked to make a short one or two minute long clip which involves the following; two characters that walk through a door, sit down on a chair then have a conversation. These are the only guidlines for the scene, the rest of the other attributes are decided by the group. Things such as the theme, costumes, dialogue and setting are all decided for the scene to give it origniality and to develop ideas and skills. The conversation in the scene can be about anything, therefore, we have decided to make it interesting which keeps the audience drawn into scene.
The next part for the task is making an A3 movie poster for necessary advertisement. The program we will most likely use is Adobe Photoshop due to the unique features the application has for the necessary standards of an A3 movie poster.
The final part of the preliminary task is to make a podcast and evaluate how the whole procedure went; pre production, filming, post preduction etc. Evaluative skills such as talking about the audience's feelings and reactions to the clip.


Deadlines:
Pre Production - 8th November - November 18th
Production Window - 19th November - 26th November
Post Production - 27th November - 12th December
Presentation Day -  15th December


What I wish to develop?
When doing the preliminary task, I hope to improve and develop my camera skills. Being able to use the camera to maximum effectiveness so it intices the audience to continue watching. I'd like to also develop my editing skills during the following lessons to assit our editor if he needs the necessary help. Also, when improving my camera skills, I wish to learn how to use a tripod but an in depth explanation to get the higher level shots as I have already been taught the tripod and camera basics. By doing this task I wish to improve all of the skills above and also, to develop my evaluative skills when it comes to the podcast.


The Production team
Alexander Mulley - Editor
Beatrice Brown - Director
Ryan Denney - Camera


Our roles were decided and based around our skills that we already have. Alexander has very good editing skills as shown on the last task, Beatrice, who worked along side Alexander used her directing skills to make their production and since I've had some camera experience and wanted to learn more, then we decided that I should operate the camera.