Filming Scene One - Day Two

Production Meeting 4

Date: 10th January 2013
Present: Bethany Hutson, Katie Bannock, Camille Pierrart and Ellie Bunce (Me)
Focus: Plan (Create a scene breakdown, shot list and production schedule)

In our fourth production meeting we got started on planning filming our opening sequence, this included making a scene breakdown, shot list and production schedule. We assigned ourselves different roles, Bethany and Camille made the scene breakdowns using our storyboard we used in our production pitch (http://www.scribd.com/doc/118314176/BECK-Production-Pitch) and I created our shot list and a summary of each scene (the props, costumes, equipment etc used). We also tried to schedule a time to start filming when we were all free by creating a table of dates but ran out of time. Although we didn't finish our production schedule we each printed a blank schedule which we had to fill in before our next meeting.

Action Point: Fill in detail of scenes on production schedule.

Preliminary Task

For our preliminary task we had to film someone opening and walking through a door and having a conversation. We had to include a reverse shot, shot the 180 degree rule and match on action.

This is Mr Buckmaster's example with the brief:  http://marlboroughmediastudies.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Preliminary%20Task

Below is Bethany, Camille and my preliminary task along with our story board (made with post-it notes), shot list and script. Using these was a great help whilst making our preliminary, however, we had to cut some of the shots and the dialogue in them because they were too short. Doing the preliminary has helped me to see why it is so important to line up the camera exactly at the start so you don't get too much or too little head space (as you can see in some of our shots). It's also helped me understand why the duration and planning of each shot is so important.