Preliminary Task Anaylsis

During pre-production and production we chose the camera angle, framing, music and other components to portray the film the way wanted to.

At the start of our film we used a long shot, looking down a corridor. This shot made the corridor feel longer. The camera was in the centre of the corridor and the character Baz walked down the middle, this made the character the focal point in the shot. We also blurred the background to make Baz the focal point in the shot. 
During editing we used jump cuts to create the feeling of time passing.

We use upbeat music at the beginning and ending of our short film, we used it to create a happy feeling. Without music the film became a bit dark and it was just silence, so the music makes it more light hearted which is what we wanted.

Baz was wearing a coat during our first few shots of him, as the script told us that he had come in from outside, and we wanted to portray it as being colder, like someone had just come in from outside.

Our piece is set in the modern day, we showed this using the location, clothing and other features. The school corridor and the desk, illustrate a modern day school as it looks new and clean.

However, we were tasked with including a typewriter in our film, we had thought about changing the time era, but we found it too difficult with the amount of time we had, so stuck with what we could do. This meant that the typewriter juxtaposes the new and modern feel we were trying to capture. 

Our next shot was a high angle shot looking down at Baz and then a close up of his hand. We sped up the footage to make it look as though Baz was in a rush, as the script portrayed him as being in a rush.
So far in our short film we hadn't show Baz's face, this is because we want to create some mystery towards who he was. We didn't know much about the character except that he was in a rush, so by not showing his face alludes to the mystery about him.

We did two different shots of a clock, one close up and the other a close up panning down shot. We included both in our final piece, however we sped up the first close up shot to again illustrate time passing, then the second shot was slower meaning the audience would be able to actually see what time it was.

A panning shot was used to reveal the receptionist, Anna, this shot represents the way the receptionist looks up at the person standing infant of her. It is from a high angle so the shot shows the audience how Baz is looking down at Anna. The receptionist wore a shirt, as it is formal and is what people wear in a working environment. The costumes needed to fit with the environment the film was set in, it is also stereotypical for women to wear blouses in the work place.

We decided on using a high angle shot, looking down on the receptionist, Anna and a low angle shot looking up at the character Baz. We wanted to create a stereotypical image of how receptionist are looked down on, or how they work under other people. The high angle, portrays this as the audience looks down at her and it makes her seem inferior.
The low angle shot has the opposite affect, as it alludes the idea that Baz has more power and authority over Anna.

There were things we did right and others that we did wrong. For the main task, I will avoid leaving doing the storyboard and shot list as I now understand how vital they are for filming. I will also try to avoid over complicating things such as casting and finding a location, as we put to much pressure on ourselves and didn't think about how much time we had, so we ended up wasting so of our time.
Things I would try to do again in the main task would be how in our group we brainstormed a lot and were bouncing ideas off of one another. I believe that we were quite creative for our first task and that was because we combined all of ideas together.