Storyboard animation

This is our groups storyboard animation. We created this to get a better idea of how we aim our final project's structure to be. We included sound similar to what we plan on using in our film opening. This helps us to picture roughly how our opening will look. We tried to match the length too but we obviously fell short as the clip ended up being 34 seconds and our goal is 2 minutes.

Film opening pitch

This is our idea for our film opening. We have made some minor changes since we pitched our idea. Some of the things we changed are were going to have only the girl as the main character in the room we aren't going to include any extra actors. We thought this would make the opening more focused on the girl as she is the main character and the action will mainly take place around her. Also, we have added ideas of including a box which will have personal objects including a photo frame of her with another girl. The audience are not told who the girl is but we see her crying on the picture which indicates it isn't a happy sighting for her.
Another change we made is that the girl will not be leaving the room, the opening will be set in one room. The room will be quite plain and simplistic without many objects.
The room is meant to mimic a mental asylum or a hospital type room but this may not be completely clear it is something we are going to hint at to the audience.

Our preliminary task

[Our prelim storyboard]

This is our prelim task which we created a group (Nimra, Jana and me). We storyboarded it prior to filming the video. As a group we planned what we would include and we made sure to incorporate the 180 degree rule, match on action and shot reverse shot. I filmed it whilst Jana and Nimra acted and then we edited it together as a group.

We know that the clip isn't amazing but it was our first attempt at filming and editing as a group. We are hoping that this can show how we started and our future projects will show a clear improvement and we will be able to see how far we have come.

As a first project I think we did well as a group as we were able to decide upon our plot and what shots we would include  together as a group and then film it with no specific problems.

Preliminary Task

The Preliminary task set by OCR:

"Preliminary exercise: continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule."

Camera shots and angles

Camera shots:

• Establishing

An establishing shot is usually the first shot of the scene as it is able to show the audience the location through a wide shot.

• Long shot

 A long shot is quite similar to an establishing shot. It is able to show an entire person/object whilst also giving a glimpse of the surrounding.

• Full shot

A full shot is a type of long shot. It is able to show the whole person's body in full, with the head near to the top of the frame and the feet near the bottom.

• Midshot

 A midshot can also be referred to as am medium shot. It is a relatively close shot and generally includes the body from the knees or waist up.

• Close up

A close up is a detail view of a person or an object focusing on a small proportion of a person or object and therefore provides no context as minimal background or setting will be seen.

• Extreme close up

 This is an extremely intimate shot and reveals a lot of detail but on a small portion of a person/object.

Camera angles:

• Eye level

An eye level shot is simply a shot in which the camera is positioned directly at the same level as the person in shot's eyes. It is how we see in real life so it is therefore the most common angle as it reflects a natural viewpoint. 

• Low angle

A low angled shot is when the camera is below eye level and is looking up to the person/scene. This is commonly used to portray the viewpoint of a hidden character. 

                                               

• High angle

A high agled shot is when the camera is positioned above eye level and is therefore looking down to the person/scene. This is commonly used to show another point of view or a hidden camera.
                                  

• Overhead shot

 An overhead shot provides a birds eye point of view and look directly down on the characters/scene.
                                     

• Under shot

An under shot provides a view from directly below the character/object. This could be used to view a scene unfolding in the sky from the ground eg an airplane as pictured below.