Preliminary task - group project

 Story Board

As a group we produced a story board (below) we wanted to plan what would happen in the scene; we knew we wanted to produce something unique but classic to Hollywood movies. What better than an interrogation? There have been many memorable interrogation scenes throughout movie history and we believed that we should challenge ourselves to create something that had a strong connection to this. As you can see from the storyboard, each section (8 all together) displays the view from the camera of the scene. First the footsteps of the interrogator walking in to the room etc. The red lines on the story board represent the movements of the characters moreover the blue represents the camera movements and direction of shot. We worked well as a group to produce a good story board. There may be a few changes in the actual final piece but this will be expected. The story board helped us alot while filming as we already knew which shots we were going to take and therefore the process was quick.
 

Storyboard

Script

This is the script for our group project, an interrogation scene. In the scene, a grizzled detective named Frank McCready is interrogating a paedophile named Alan who has kidnapped a young girl, Tabitha. We wanted the main tension to come from Frank's desperation to find out where this girl is. The audience is led to believe it is because of his passion for upholding the law, but the twist ending reveals it is because Tabitha is infact his daughter. We chose this subject matter as a group, and we handled it this way because we thought the action and the intensity would present more opportunities to use interesting camera angles, and it did. Also, I thought some gritty realism would add to the scene's cinematic integrity.

When we filmed it, the dialogue differed from the script, as when it was in the process of filming it didn't sound as natural as we hoped it would when it was written. This was slightly off putting as we wanted the film to be as realistic as possible. This shows our trial and error and our knowlede that somthing wasnt right; as a group we can improve things even more. We also had to tone down some of the torture and violence, due to a lack of resources, but I am glad it has worked out this way because i believe the character Frank is more likeable, and as the main protagonist, he's someone the audience should root for. I think these changes raised our film to the next level it improved the scene and gave it a sensible improvisational quality.

 

Script

Direction

This is a diagram of the Camera Movements; the camera positions around the room and the movements of the characters. If you refer to the key in the upper right hand corner, the red line displays the movements of the characters etc. As you can tell the diagram is from a bird’s eye view, as a group we wanted to gain some sort of idea of the movements in the preliminary task.