Preliminary shoot

In preparation for making my thriller, and putting into practice the skills I had learnt from the camera lessons. We had to create a preliminary sequence. This involved shooting a short conversation between two people. We were given a storyboard and a script with which we interpreted with our own story. Here is the storyboard we used:

The final story line we agreed on was that the two characters were lovers, and the male character was convincing the female character to tell her husband. As well as the basic shots that are vital to a sequence like this such as: Wide, Mid shot, Close up, over the shoulder. We agreed it was necessary in order to convey our story that extra shots were required such as a close up on the females face to convey her sad expression and build the tension before her lover arrives. Then a close up on her phone showing her sliding through pictures of her and her husband, followed by a mid shot showing her wiping away her tears before her lover bursts in.

We shot using the Sony NX5 and a tripod. We used the basic set in the studio, this was a room with a sofa and a door. Ollie and Crerar played the two roles, I directed and filmed along with Lauren and Katie. We began with the wide shot allowing us a main shot to revert back to if we came across a shot which we didn't like when editing. Then we shot the mid shots and close ups of character 1 afterwards we filmed the same shots with character 2. I found difficulty in making the actors do similar gestures and movements in each take. I realised that this would leave us with some continuity errors later in post production, therefore i tried to make each character stay in the same position and do each movement the same for every take. In order to make the actors stay in the same positions we used tape markers to show where each actor stood at which point in the sequence.