Preliminary Task- Room Dialogue

"For this task we had to film an actor walking through a door and having a few lines of dialogue between him/her and another character. The idea I came up was to have an armed robbery, where the gunman prepares himself for the robbery .We follow him into the shop and then show the initial robbery.
  
Script

The robber is being followed by the camera and a mock CCTV camera is recording the robber walking into the store, whilst a customer is making a purchase at the store counter.

Clerk: That will be five ninety-nine. please.

The robber walks in the shop looking mysterious and gives a negative impression to the customer and the clerk.

Robber: Get down on the floor.

Robber: Make it fast and no one gets hurt.

Clerk: (sudden and scared reaction) Aaahh

Customer: (sudden and scared reaction) Please don't hurt me.

Storyboard

Shot-List

 Our first shot will be a close-up shot establishing a  shot of the robber putting his hood on from behind. Then we will cut to the shop where the customer is making the transaction with the shop clerk and we will do a pan shot behind the customer. We then cut to the robber walking and again we do a close-up following shot from behind. We cut back to the store and this time the clerk is giving the change back to the customer and we take a close-up over the shoulder shot but this time it is at an angle so we see the hands of both the clerk and customer. We move back to the robber but this time we take a following shot as he opens the door of the store. The final scene is taken as if it is the CCTV camera inside the store so it is a over-head shot.

Final Video 

 

Evaluation

To start off me and my partner (Nick Jacobs) started to gather ideas for the preliminary task keeping in mind the task we had to focus on.After discussing a few ideas, we finally concluded that we would go ahead with the robbery as it had some elements of a thriller.We began to draw out the storyboard which included the shot list to guide us in case we were stuck. We also needed a few actors who would play the roles of the robber, store owner and the victim.Jordan Stearn, Yvonne Godby and Ryan Oakley helped us. We then needed a room, originally we intended to use a classroom and set it up to look like a store however all the classrooms we checked were being used at the time, so we looked around for any other spaces we could use. Eventually we found a stock room to set the scene depicting a  kind of warehouse. The props we used were tights for Jordan's face and a fake gun which was brought by Nick from home. It took us about an hour or so before we managed to get all of the footage we needed, we then packed up and captured the footage on the computer and begin to edit the footage and sequenced it together.To make the tasks efficient, Nick and myself decided to split the work load in half, he took care of the camera angles and filming, and I took care of the editing and effects. Nick also made the soundtrack for the film using Logic Pro as we had some time to spare before deadline. All in all I found this task new and different from other tasks as we had to come up with new ideas and it had to be done in a short period of time. The task allowed me to be creative with what we shot. We did encounter a few obstacles on the way such as finding sets, and having the actors arrive on time but things worked out in the end. Sharing the load also really helped. I also realised the significance of time and how a short shot can take a lot of time.