Continuity Task - Pre-production

We where lucky enough to be given a whole day to start our continuity task. This was a chance to work in our groups to learn how to come up with an idea, story board it, script it, film and edit it as well. We also developed our knowledge and technical skill of camera work, sound, editing and miss-en-sence. The film must not be more than 60 seconds long.

To complete this successfully, our technical requirements for this task are that:

• You must not break the 180 degrees rule
• You must include a shot-reverse-shot
• You must include a variety of appropriate camera angles
• You must edit so that continuity is apparent and meaning is clear
• You must include more than one location
• You must include some interaction between characters
• You must include some non-diegetic sound

So before starting filming any thing we have to come up with some ideas. here are some on the ideas we came up with: Spy, Mafia, Chase, Business Conversation and Murder. We decided on Murder as it was the most simple of all the ideas and quick to shot. Also we decided on murder and it is a thriller and as the genre we are doing is base on a thriller we thought that it would be a good idea, as we can put what we have learnt in to practice. Also because it is the genre that we know the most about, down to our research.

So after deciding that we would do a murder, we next brainstormed the ideas we have for the film itself (which can be scene below). The decision we make was that it would be about a man who find out his wife is having an affair, he finds a weapon (metal bar) and sets of to got and kill her. He finds her tell her the he know what has been going on and find hits her over the head with the weapon. We feel that this was a good idea as it was simple to shoot, easy to understand and it fulfilled the requirements.

After coming up with our idea we then decided to storyboard and script our our 60 second shot film. In this proses we known that we need to not break the 180 degrees rule have a shot-reverse-shot, a variety of angles, more then one location and a interaction between character. So we when into story boarding with this at the front of our minds.

Here is our story broad:

We now that we want music to come in at the point what our main characters see the weapon and we know what style we wanted but not what piece of music. We also known that we what to have diegetic sound through out the film.

Our script need to be short be concise, allowing our audience to understand what was doing on In a shot time. We feel that our scrip did this, here it is.

Man: I know what you have been doing. 
Woman: What? 
Man: Don’t You lie to me. You know what I am talking about. How dare you sleep with him. 
Woman: How did you find out? 
Man: John down the pub told me. How dare you? [Man lifts weapon up in the air.] 
Woman: I’m Sorry. I’m Sorry [Scream]

I feel that out script was very good as it got to the point quick and gave the audience the information they need to understand what had happened. However I think out story board could have been better, giving more information like shot angle, lengths, Sound, Diegetic or Non-Diegetic Editing, Cuts or Cross Dissolve ect. This is something to take on and think about when we make our prover story board as this will make the production and post production faster and easy, as all the chosen have been made before hand.