Preliminary Task - Main Factors

Preliminary task

Location

In the storyboard that we had chosen to do, the location which was shown on it wasn’t suitable for us to do the filming which was one thing that we had had to change so we decided to pick a place in our school. As we had to the filming in class time, most of the classrooms which suited this piece were occupied as lessons were taking place and the sixth-form area was quite noisy as too many people were in there so we decided to use a place in the drama block. As this place is used for some of our students to use as an social area at lunchtimes, it was perfect for us to use as it had a comfortable relaxed seating area which was quite big. There was also a door which we could use as part of our brief. The lighting was also quite perfect as there was a lot of light coming in and you could see the acting taking place clearly which was also appropriate for the camera.

However if we had to do this piece again, I would want to seat myself somewhere else in the room as because of where I was sitting, the camera girl had difficulty filming the over shoulder shot. This is because behind me was a window which meant that it wasn’t easy for her to place the camera over my shoulder so that you could see the opposite person clearly. Apart from this this, the overall location we chose to do fulfilled the other aspects that we required.


Casting

Female #1 - Aabidah Ali

Female #2 - Safina Rashid

Camerawoman - Jemma

Script writer - Jemma

Producer - Aabidah Ali

Producer - Jemma



Equipment

In this task we had to use some pieces of equipment so that our task could be fulfilled to its best ability. The equipment that we used for this task can/will be used for my main task that I will do once completing this.
The equipment that we used are:

• A Digital Video Camcorder

• A Tripod

 

• Props (Seating area e.g. chair)

• A Mac Laptop

Software

As part of the brief we have to edit the film piece that we do. Therefore I will be needing a suitable software which will accomplish this for me. Our teacher recommended that we should use to edit our clips iMovie 11 on a Mac laptop. I will be using this software for my main task aswell.