Ideas for our film Opening

Film genre: Thriller/ social realism

For our film opening me, Zach & Luke have decided we want to make a chase scene opening, hopefully following the conventions of a Thriller. We want it to be as realistic as we can make it, this will be achived by using alot of stedicam handheld.

Good example of a steadicam technique we would use in a chase sequence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CD0hrD9Lp0

Prelim task Script

Luck Of The Draw....

(First man shown to be the Challenger walks down staircase)

 (Shot reverse shot of Challenger opening a door and then walking down corridor to where dealer is seated)

 (The two men then proceed to walk towards a room, wherein there is a table and some chairs set up, to show this the two men walk towards the camera, shot reverse shot and then show a match on action shot of the lead man opening the door to the room)

(Show wide shot of one man walking into the room. In the same shot this one man then crosses the room)

(Cut to: wide shot of challenger sitting down at the table and drawing cards. Close up shot of cards being drawn, like lethal and tactical weapons, from concealment holsters.)

1^st Man (nodding to the other two in a menacing and hard stare): You in?

2^nd Man (nodding in agreement): I’m in. I was born ready.

(Two men lock eyes in extreme close up, placing cards and money onto the table.)

(Close up of money being put down on the table and cards being thrown on top of the cash pile)

(Extreme close up of the remaining two men locking eyes, staring each other out. Cut between the two men. Wide shot of a game of cards being played. When challenger loses, close up of his outrage and upset at the result as the dealer collects the money.)

(Show shot reverse shot of dealer leaving the den. Show separate shot of challenger leaving the room in anger, although one wide shot to retain camera smoothness.)

(Fade to black.)

Preliminary task final Video

And here it is, what everybody has been waiting for......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3yMlJ8V91k

Preliminary task evaluation

what worked well and would could have worked better.
first of all I thought that me, Zach & Luke worked very well as a amateur film crew. trying to find a location for our short seen proved to be quite difficult due to several factors, 1.) some places had too much background noise and made trying to record dialogue tricky 2.) In some shots there was to much background movement, for example if we filmed in the common room, its likely people wouldn't stay in the same place, so when we filmed over the shoulder shots, people would just appear and re-appear whenever. But eventually we found our location, the main library, we could film our sequence with relative ease and not have to think about background noise and extras. Next came the filming itself, we borrowed several cameras from the library, not because we were greedy but because half of them didn't work! but we managed to make do. Within the library a scene would take place where me and Luke engaged in riveting dialogue whilst Zach filmed all of the necessary shots, such as shot reverse shot, over the shoulder shot (180 degree rule) and some wide shots.
Next came the editing, perhaps easier said than done, but with the help of a simple guideline we managed to stich our film together, into a masterpiece in my opinion. I think with a couple more editing tasks I will become quite slick with the iMovie on the mac.