Our Third attempt

Rather than using the footage that we already had this time and adding to it, we decided to make an entirely different film using a new story line with new characters. This time we had the worked in the same group, but with Georgia and JJ as well. This meant that we were now working in a group of 5. Unlike our last films, we actually wrote a script...

·         Ollie – John

·         Izzie – Juliana

·         Georgia – pedestrian

·         JJ – Hostage

·         Ben – Bodyguard

Shots of hallway leading up to the room with John in it. A shot of johns face as ben kicks him. “get up… The boss wants to see you” Ben then helps him up and guides him though the hallway as they leave the room Georgia bumps into him, “sorry!” Ben then continues to lead John down the hall way and then into the office. In the office is Juliana and JJ, JJ is strapped to a chair and Juliana is standing behind him. John then says, “what’s this?”  Juliana then replies, “This is what happens when it turns out that one of our employees is an undercover spy”. She then pulls out a gun and shoots JJ in the head. “Now do you have anything that you want to say”. John then replies, “…No” “Thought not” She then gets out her gun and shoots John.

John then is back at where he first woke up and jolts up screaming “NO!” He then goes through the exact same process again only this time he is acting a little bit confused.

He then wakes up shouting and then this time when she walks out of the room he doesn’t bump into Georgia, he then tries to kill the body guard, and fails and dies.

When he then wakes up this time, he doesn’t scream he just sits up and says “damit” He then pretends to be asleep on the floor. When the body guard then comes in he takes him down and kills him, he then walks out dodges Georgia in a cool way, and the goes into the room. He then proceeds to have the same conversation that he previously had, and then she tries to get the gun off of Juliana and then gets shot.

This time it starts off the same as the 4th one but he then gets the gun off of Juliana, shoots her, and then the film ends.

Now that we have actually filmed it we ended up changing a couple of our original ideas, like for example the names of the characters, or some of the dialogue. The dialogue was changed so that it fit better to the characters at hand. 

This ended up being our longest film so far at roughly 5 and a half munities. the reason that this film ended up being so long was because of how many times we had to show the same footage with different acting. When we were filming we had to film  the same thing from the same angle about three to four times in a row. We wanted to film everything from the same angle when ever it was repeating itself so that the audience would have a better understanding of the situation at hand. One thing that I learnt whilst filming this preliminary task was that it is good to keep anything that you film. This is because we found a lot of shots that we ended up using were filmed on our 2nd attempt out of 5 for example, this is because we found these shots to be more efficient only when we were actually going through them and editing them.

One films that I tried to refer to whilst coming up with what the shots should be in the film was edge of tomorrow. I wanted to refer to this film because of the fact that the story line is similar to ours, and it is also the same genre.

This is the first shot in our preliminary task of cyclical. One way that I think that we could have improved on the beginning to our short film would have been by having one more opening shot like this one. The reason that I felt that we needed to have this was because I thought that it would help to give the audience a much better feel for where they were.







Click here to see our finished piece of our preliminary task.