I was looking forward to starting our preliminary exercise when we were first told about it but I was really nervous at the same time because I was worried about how our work would turn out. Our first lesson that we started to work on this was the most stressful to me because the communication within my group wasn’t the best and I thought that we may not get it all done on time, or to a good enough standard. By the end of the lesson we had already done our initial idea’s and decided roles within the group and also in that lesson our communication was better and I feel we really got our group organised. I had the role of the director which I was happy with and I felt I could do quite well.
We struggled a bit during the initial idea blast because we wanted something that we thought would fit the requirement quite well. In the end we agreed on doing a hitman/criminal theme. We talked about how we could make the piece work well for the briefing and in general. Our group talked about the different kinds of things we could involve, for example, panning and the rule of thirds.
Me and Hayley did the planned schedule as Rhiannon (our scriptwriter) did the draft script with help from David. I felt like this was good because we were all doing something and I think the schedule we came up with was time manageable and achievable. We also accidentally gave ourselves a spare week on the schedule because we had the half term date wrong, but when we noticed this we chose to leave it, this way we had extra time to correct any mistakes. When David and Rhiannon had finished with the script with did the story board.
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I started it but because I had to print stuff off David and Rhiannon finished it. I think that was a better idea as where they wrote the script they were able to draw the storyboard better. In the end we wanted to stick with our draft script. As a group we felt it was fine the way it was and so we left it the way it was instead of changing anything, however if i could change something now, i would have added more technical codes and conventions into it. Before we did the script we decided to find somewhere to film so we could base it around the room, depending on angles and what we were limited to do. We didn’t spend too long looking because we have previously decided that because it was the preliminary, to film on college because it was easier to us whilst learning it all. We instantly liked the Media TV Studio when location hunting because of the black walls. We thought it would be perfect for our piece because it was dark and we could use the lightening in there for key point lighting of our dominant character.
I think we got on well with the rest of the paperwork before filming the preliminary exercise as well. We did it all as a group which I think is good because we all had our say. The SWOT analysis went well. We went through each box one by one together talking about the different things that could possible affect our work in a positive or negative way. The risk assessment was good too because we had already seen the room when we went looking for locations and went we were having a look in there for places in the room to shoot, we had a look around and thought about possible dangers/hazards. In the end we managed to pick all possible dangers out and discuss how to stop them. Finally the call sheet was ok to do together. It was too hard to do and we talked about where, when etc to meet and how long to film. We also took possible delays into account and made sure we made time for them, which proved to be useful when we actually filmed.
Later we did some research on youtube of things like, Public Enemies and Pulp fiction. We liked the old fashion style and wanted to base the dress codes on them. However we weren’t too concerned with the dress codes compared to other things because it was part of the brief that was required, but we still wanted to use it to make it more effective.
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