Evaluation Of The Preliminary Task!

In our preliminary task, we had to make a short film of someone entering a room say a few lines of dialogue to the other character, who is already in the room, then leave again. We had to think about props, location and genre of the scene. Our Genre was a comedy spoof on a police drama. We showed this when the first 10 to 20 seconds are serious, when the investigator (Jenni Dack) is entering the room and the f irst part of the dialogue. The comedy comes in when the accused (Whitney Mckernan) misunderstanding the question. For example, the investigator says “we all know the truth we all know that you’re the murderer” and the accused replied “what! what was that about a hamburger?”
Firstly, we had to look at the location, costumes and props. For the location, we looked at a room from Sprowston high school, but it was unavaliable, as we could only film at certain time, which we couldn’t do. So we had to find another location, we had troubles finding a location but we found a place which was appropiate for our filming. We filmed at a room at Sewell park college.
We also had problems with costumes as we had a problem. So the we had to change the character costumes. At one point we had the accused as a old woman, who has trouble hearing, but we didnt have the costume for it, so then we changed it to a foriegner, who has trouble undestanding english. The investigator was dressed smartly, wearing dark and dull clothing, as we were using a represntation of an investigator. The accused would contrast the investigator, the accused wore colourful clothing.
Originally we were going to have many props for our filming. For example, we were going to have the investigator smoking and used a unlight cigerette and smoking machine, but since there were problems getting the snoke machine we decided to change it. We were also going to use a walking stick as part of the old woman; we could not get one in time for the filming.
When editing, we realised that we didn’t do the 180 degree rule. We also have got an error on the final piece, we noticed this when we finnished editing. Time was a problem for us, as the person that is in the film was ill, but we managed to get the filming done at the end. From doing this task we (as a group) realise to make sure that we get everything done and to be more organised with props.