Evaluation for Preliminary task

I was happy with the outcome as were the others, or atleast i hope they were considering it was our first task of this course and on filming. I believe there was no errors as such in this task, we included all of the criteria, everything went to plan as we were based in a small dark room, everytime we shot the same scene we made sure everything was in place. I would say that the only problem that did occur at times was not the continuity but ourselves, as being good friends and being that we like to have a laugh, at times we did find ourselves to be distracted.

I remember having a conversation with Sam and Jack, and Sam brung up the Hitchcock cliche of a swinging lamp, but one it was the time limit we had, and two the room we were using didn't have a swinging lamp so the school would probably would not let us place a new light into the room. So knowing we wanted a cliche involved, we wanted atleast on of the characters in an over the top Chicago accent and a typical dark smokey room. The costume was perfect as me and Jack have that sort of style naturally and was able to provide the clothes ourselves.

Idea for preliminary task

Our first idea was to do something in black and white, basically a film noir so that the two colours have a contrast, so with this idea in mind what genre would fit it. All three of us, me, Jack and Sam then decided we wanted an American 1930's/40's gangster noir film. But we had a limit. It had to be thirty seconds long, use of shot reverse shot, and a 180 degree rotation, and finally a match on action. We also wanted one of the characters to be a sort of bent cop, so we had a set in mind. so our idea consisted of on being tied up, the other smoking, and both on each side of a table in this dark smokey room, with the camera at the end of the table most of the time so we can see both characters facial reactions. We also decided not to have much speech as we believe it will create tension.