Preliminary

Preliminary Task...

              Before doing main task, I need to make a Preliminary task. This will serve the purpose of showing what I can do at the beginning of the course, which i will then compare too at the end of the course.  I am doing this is a 4 man group (Brad Sanders, Jack Wilson, Sam Yip, Matt Cornes). We all have separate jobs to do, mine is an actor and as a cameraman.


Our set was a TV studio and a stairwell near it. This limited us in what we could do but also forced us to think outside the box in terms of plot and techniques. We finalized an idea of having an unnamed character climb some stair and then lead into and interrogation scene in a very darkened room. This worked because it used easy to access locations and also hid the fact we are using a TV studio  due to it being so dark. We set up a table and two chairs in the set and then positioned cameras and lights to get the desired effects. Despite this there was still some daylight present, we decided we would have to fix this in editing. 

The 4 actors we used were Matt Cornes, Brad Sanders, Eliot Nash and Alex Brown. Matt played the detective. This character was meant to be played as a man with hidden anger. Brad plays the convict. The convict is supposed to be arrogant and sure of himself, having no respect for the detective. The character is refusing to admit to a crime, unknown to the viewer. The guard is played by Eliot. The guard is a subliminal character, as his only role is to look powerful and to push the convict back into his seat when he stands. Alex plays the mysterious case handler, and in this piece his responsibility is to hand the case to Matthew. Overall the filming too approx. two days. The shots were very simple to film properly. Continuity rules were followed and rules such as the 180-Degree rule was followed. We shall now begin to edit this task which i will post later, with a description of what we did as well as having the final product posted there.