Storyboard for our Preliminary Piece

These are the storyboards that we started to create for our Preliminary Piece. These were useful in creating guidelines for us to follow when filming and helped us in terms of experience with storyboarding when it comes to the planning of our Thriller Opening.

 

As you can see, we did not finish these storyboards. This was because we were rushed for time and so focused more on filming than thoroughly planning the piece. This taught us that when it comes to our Thriller Opening we need to start planning earlier in order to develop a well structured plan for the piece.

Camera Angles for our Preliminary Piece

Bellow show some stills that we took when we began planning for our Preliminary Piece. we chose to take photos instead of drawing storyboards because it enabled us to use the camera to our advantage in the sense that we could experiment and see what camera angle we wanted to use within the piece.

These pictures gave us a baseline that we could refer to when it came to filming the piece and it helped us stick to what we had planned which shows that this method od planning was effective for our Preliminary Piece.

This this photo you can see a low angle shot to show the character running. This closer shot allows the audience to see that the character is in a rush.

This was originally how we had planned this shot to look like however, after filming, the shot changed slightly where we film the character from the other side.

We chose to use this shot because it not only gave a full view of the character but it also helped set the scene as you can see the school in the background.

Practising with green screen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqXc4unVAUs This video shows the work we did with a green screen shortly after our preliminary piece which was created using Adobe Premier Pro (chroma key effect). We did this to evaluate our piece and found it an effect way in using different editing software's. This allowed us to work using methods of which we never have done before and gave us more experience with such media technologies. Although this method of evaluation proved to be too time consuming, it was an effective way in gaining experience and helped in the preparation of our thriller opening.

Preliminary Piece

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOsfj4vkgaI&feature=c4-overview&list=UUht5fxUjha19_XNfG0mi2EA

This is the piece that my group have worked on. during this process, we got used to experimenting with camera angles, storyboarding, editing and general filming. this was a good practice to prepare us for our Thriller piece.