Preliminary Task - Our Idea

The criteria for the the task contained the following;

• two character must walk through a door
• sit down on a chair
• have a conversation

Also, there is an 180 degree rule in which only one side of the character must be filmed. This would mean that careful shot planning would have to be carried out.

Our initial idea was to have two assassins or secret agents that have a confrentation in a room. The idea was to have one innocent agent with the other accusing them of something that they haven't done. We then thought that another character could be involved, for example, the agent accusing the other could say that they killed that new character when in actual fact, they didn't.
We had now got our base for the storyline and could then develop this idea into further detail.

For the setting, we discussed about where we may film the scene. The school wouldn't be very adventurous propect for filming a scene like this so we then thought about doing at Ferry Meadows which is a small nature reserve that has routes for dog walking, children play area and small cafés. Our first thought was to film it at one of the cafés on the waterfront. This would mean we would have to ask for permission to film there and fill out a large risk assessment form.

For our actors, Alexander is part of a drama group and had contacted two of the girls in the group to act for us. They had agreed to do so which only left one more actor to find. Beatrice also knows a drama student that would be suitable for the part and she also agreed to act in our task. We then decided who would be who so that they had an idea of what they should have to do when filming started. The actors had been found and a short draft of the script was sent to them so that they could start learning the dialogue.

Further discussion led to the thought of being filmed in a library since the café seemed an unlikely to have permission due to the amount of people that would be there and for our actors to be able to get there to film. The library gave the additional aspect of the actors having to whisper their lines to give the film a tense feel to it. We thought this idea was brilliant so we went about incorporating this element into the pre-production.