Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IsEDzhUrp4

For my preliminary task, I decided the genre of film I wanted to do was thriller. Together as a group, we came up with several ideas which we thought would suit this genre. We decided that a kidnapping scene would be interesting and something that we could recreate quite easily. I thought that this would be filled with mystery and tension, and leave the audience wondering what will happen next.

In order to create a tense, eerie scene, we needed the correct costumes, props etc. to ensure that this was portrayed.
The preliminary task was filmed at a member of my groups house. I thought that this would be a good place to film, as it had everything we needed in order to create our scenes. Some of the props we used were: knives, scissors, a cloth, a pillowcase, tape, a mallet and a borrowed car. We wanted to make our piece sinister and mysterious, so by using things like knives and mallets, it created the atmosphere we needed.


A main problem we faced as a group was that we ended up laughing in between scenes, as we struggled to stay serious. We had to repeat several scenes in order to get them right, and this prolonged the process (although, we did get there in the end). Another problem that we faced was that we had to wait to a specific time of the day to film certain parts. We wanted our film to be mainly set outside, however we often struggled to get the right lighting, as we didn't have a budget or any form of professional equipment that we could've used. Also, an additional problem that we faced was that everyone had to be home for a certain time, which limited the amount of filming we could do, especially outside.

However, I thoroughly enjoyed creating this preliminary task, as I found it interesting to try out the filming and also to act out within it. We will take all of the skills and techniques we learnt from this task and put it into our main task, where we will create a post-apocalyptic film opening scene.
From our preliminary task, we have learnt that if we got straight to the task, rather than laughing at it first, we could focus better and therefore create an even better piece. However, I think that it went quite well and our end product turned out well.


If we were to do this again, we would use a voice over for our scenes, as we found that whilst we were filming outside, it was difficult to hear the things we were saying. This is something which we will consider using for our main task.