In our Preliminary task, we choose to focus on doing an action scene. The short film involved two school girls who were uncovered as agents within the college community. There are known as 003 and 004.
The camera shots we used within the short film where close ups, over the shoulder, high and low shots and long shots. However we found that some of the clips we filmed were a bit shaky, such as the clip where Agent 004 is running down the stairs, this clip was very shaky. We also found that our audio was very crackly due to a fault in the recorder, some parts of the audio are clear when others are very crackly and muffled. We found at the end of editing our preliminary task to have many faults in, and we did not have enough time to edit it to a high standard.
Though out the filming of the task we wrote up a script to follow along.
Maddie- Agent004
Mary- Agent003
Alone in a room Maddie is
sitting at desk on Ipad, to anyone she looks like a normal college student. But
to certain people she is part of a secret agency. Maddie or Agent 004 as she is
known looks around suspiciously before sending a text to Mary, a fellow
Agent 003. Camera is on mid shot, capturing the actor sitting at the desk with
the Ipad in front of them.
Mary/Agent 003 gets
the text and the camera zooms into Extreme close up of the phone.
Mary/Agent 003
looks around, before running off down the empty corridor and slams though
a door. The door slowly slams behind her, the mission impossible music cuts in,
and a long shot/ over the shoulder of the actor running. Then a close up of the
door slamming behind actor.
Mary/Agent 003 runs down a
set of stairs before glancing around, she then finds the room and attempts to
cartwill, but fails, into the open door, and into the room she glances around
and spots Maddie before standing up straighter and dusts herself off before
crossing the room to sit in font of Maddie/Agent 004 who glances up at her
fellow Agent.
Mary/Agent
003
(singsong voice)
"I'm
hereeeeee"
(exaggerate on the here)
Maddie/Agent 004
(Shushes Mary)
“Quiet, you'll blow
our cover”
(Annoyed tone)
Mary/Agent 003
"Ahhh"
(Taps nose and winks)
Maddie/Agent 004
(Rolls her eyes before
leaning across the table)
“Well
you're hear now so listen. Everything about us and this mission is not this
device. Guard it with your life 003.”
(Serious tone)
(Agent 004 slips
Ipad across to Agent 003)
Mary/Agent 003
“Don't worry you can
trust me”
(winks, and goes to stand but stumbles and
drops the device. Looks up with a sheepish smile)
Maddie/Agent 004
(sighs)
“It's
going to be long mission”
We followed the script exactly word for word. However we did change a few things. One example was the character Maddie was changed due to the original actress not being available to be apart of our piece. she was replaced by another girl called Chloe.
To conclude this evaluation, I think we could have done a lot better with our preliminary task. When we starting our main task, I think we really need to get more advanced with our camera shots, and editing.
