Planning:Shot List

Date	Time	Shots to film	Where?	Who?	Props
- Friday (4thlesson) -Friday (6thlesson)	- 11:55 to 12:35 -2:10 to 3:00	- 6 Shots - 6 Shots -	Show 1-2 and 3 are outside the classroom. The rest of the shots we are filming inside the dark room.	Timothy (Jamie) Alice (Immy)	-Paper(documents) -Shoes -Clothes -Table and chairs - Minilla envelope
				Timothy (Jamie)
				Alice (Immy)

Planning:Location Planning

Establishing Shot

Location : Kettering Police Station

Shot 1 of our Storyboard is an establishing shot showing the exterior of the Police Station.

We felt showing the outside of a real Police Station would be better than trying to create a fake location as it is more of a suitable setting for the first scene.

The location is easily accessible and will be clear to the audience on what our context for the short film is.

Tracking sideways

Location : Outside a Room (Kettering Buccleuch Academy)

Shot 2 of our Storyboard is a Tracking Sideways shot (movement) showing the interior of Kettering Buccleuch Academy (outside the room).

We felt showing the Lawyer walking inside the building rather than outside was better as it gives the shot more of an intense atmosphere (walking towards the door).

The location is easily accessible and the room itself is very dark which will help the audience understand how intense the context of the shot is.

Close Up

Location : Room door (Kettering Buccleuch Academy)

Shot 3 of our Storyboard is a Close Up shot showing the interior of Kettering Buccleuch Academy (the door).

We thought showing the Close Up of the Lawyer's hand opening the door would help the audience understand where the Lawyer is heading to and helping them understand how the scene location is changing.

The location is easily accessible and simple to film.

Shots : Extreme Closeup, Mid Shot, Over the shoulder, Point of view, Reverse shot, Two person shot, Closeup.

Angles : Low Angle, High angle.

Movement : Panning, Tracking in, Tracking out.       

Shots : 4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12.

Location : Dark room

For the rest of the shots the location will be the dark room, where the conversation will happen. We have chosen the location to be a dark room as we want it to look like a police interview where they have a single table with two chairs and a couple of spotlights. This helps the conversation feel more intense which draws the audience in. The location is easily accessible and simple to film.

                                 

Planning:Casting

  

 Timothy is a 27 year old lawyer, who is defending on Alice's behalf to try and reduce her jail time. He isn't too experienced as he has only just recently graduated 4 years ago from law school, however he is known to have won many cases. He enjoys being a lawyer as he believes all people deserve a second chance because everyone makes mistakes. 

The part of Timothy will be played by Jamie Osborn. Jamie is a good choice for the role of Timothy because he is a good actor and is very confident.

 Alice is a 23 year old who is pregnant and expecting her first child. She enjoys seeing people seeing people suffer and spends her spare time stalking the next victim on her list. 

The part of Alice will be played by Imogen Orr. Imogen is a great choice for this role because she would be confident in front of the camera and would be able to transform into the role of Alice.

Planning: Film Schedule

Daily no. of shots	Storyboard shot No.	Shot:	Shot description:	Time allowance:
1	2	mid shot	Tracking sideways of feet walking	10 mins
2	3	Close up	Zooming into the hand	10 mins
3	4	Extreme close up	Close up of the eyes	10 mins
4	5	mid shot	High angle of their conversation	10 mins
5	6	Over the shoulder	Start of the conversation	10 mins
6	7	Over the shoulder	Reverse shot	10 mins
7	8	Point of view	Close up of the hand cuffs	10 mins
8	9	Over the shoulder	Revere shot	10 mins
9	10	Two person shot	Shot of them sitting at the table	10 mins
10	11	Close up	Of the persons face	10 mins
11	12	Tracking out	Shot of them going out	10 mins
12	1	establishing	Outside of the police station	10 mins

Preliminary Task: Creating A Storyboard From Initial Ideas

We were asked to create 12 storyboard panels which visualised our ideas from our initial ideas. We had to include the camera shots, camera movements, camera angle and the location of our project. here is our 12 storyboard panels:

Preliminary Task: First Ideas

Our task was to create a mind map of ideas that could be used for our preliminary task.

My group has chosen the scenario of a police visit for a pregnant woman who is a serial killer. She is a psychopath therefore she does not have any regrets about the family she killed. Her lawyer visits her and asks her how she is finding the prison and talks about the upcoming court hearing and estimates how long she will be staying in prison for if they manage to win their case.

Foundation Portfolio: What Is It?

50% of your grade will be earned through your Foundation Portfolio. This consists of a preliminary task and a main task, the details of which can be found below.

The Preliminary Task is designed to illustrate the processes of pre-production, production and post-production that will be required, albeit in more detail, when you come to undertake the Main Task. The Preliminary Task is not marked but MUST be completed and submitted alongside the Main Task to the examiner. If it is not completed, marks are deducted from your Main Task.

The Main Task is marked out of 100. These marks are broken down as follows:

20 marks - Research into similar media products and planning of your own media product.
60 marks - Construction of your own media product including filiming and editing.
20 marks - Evaluation of your own media product.

All of your work must be posted to your blog as this will be accessed by the examiner in May of 2016.

For each of the criteria above, marks are available in 4 levels with level 4 being the highest. 

The progress thermometer below shows the key words for each level of the mark scheme.

This is what you have to do:

Preliminary Exercise

Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Main Task

The titles and opening of a new teen horror film, to last a maximum of two minutes.

All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both preliminary and main tasks must be completed as a group. Maximum four members to a group.