Preliminary planning and evaluation.

Shot one; This is a behind shot.
You will be able to hear digetic sounds of footsteps when girl is walking down the stairs.
Natural lighting from window to the left, so the setting looks realistic.
This is set in the basement of Hitchin Girls school.

Shot two; Actor (me) walking down the stairs again.
This is a high angled shot from behind, instead of having the same shot as before, to give a better effect and view on the surroundings.
You will hear digetic sounds of footsteps walking sown the stairs still.
Natural lighting from window behind.

Shot three; Actor walking down the stairs.
Long angled sot, you cannot see her face purposely; thriller convention.
Digetic sounds of footsteps from her walking down the stairs.
Natural lighting from behind window.

Shot four;Girl approaches the door.
This is a behind shot, mid close-up.
You still cant see her face, Digetic sounds are still there.
Set in Hitchin Girls school basement.

Shot five; Girl about to open the door.
This is an over the shoulder shot from behind.
No face is shown still.
Digetic sounds of door creaking open.
Hitchin Girls school basement.

Shot six; Girl entering room. Camera has switched to facing towards her.Mid close up- again not seeing her face creating mystery.Digetic sounds of the door creaking still and footsteps echoing.Hitchin Girls school basement.

Shot seven; The girl walks into room. Wide shot of girl walking into room looking through coats that are hung up in the basement,the camera captures he face blurred through the plastic sheet.Digetic sounds of footsteps.Hitchin girls school basement.

Shot eight; The girl looking around, this is the first time the audience can see her face. Shot from the side. filmed in Hitchin Girls school basement.


Overall i think our preliminary task was successful. I think this because it gave us a starting point to get into filming an opening of a film. It gave us practice with using the cameras, including different camera shots, audio, lighting and editing on the mac's.
I think this did help us develop to our final piece.
On the other hand, if i could change anything, it would be making our preliminary task about more of a challenge, as we used only one location at Hitchin Girls school and used natural lighting and did not include any music.
We did plan our preliminary task in detail, and found the perfect location to film in ( basement of Hitchin girls school ) i am pleased with the result, and pleased with how this was useful to us in our final outcome.