Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task

Our film tackles the issue of drug use between young people today. We felt it is a very relevant issue in society today, and also something quite interesting to learn about, so therefore, this is what we based our script and filming on. Our film genre is a drama. For our film we aimed it at a teenage audience as we feel it is relevant in their lives. Furthermore, me looked at other TV series such as misfits and skins, which tackle the issue of drug use. Their audiences are for young people, so therefore we felt that's where our influence lay. We decided to name our film 'dépendance' as it is French for 'addiction' and we felt this was an artistic and expressive name for our film. We wanted to achieve a quirky and dramatic film which displayed an issue in societ today, and would make the audience think and want to know more about the characters and their stories. This is our film:

I worked with Ava Coyle (http://avacoyle-media.blogspot.co.uk/) and George Kinsley (http://georgek56sasmediastudiesblog.blogspot.co.uk/) to produce our film. Ava was in charge of costume, positioning and lighting. It was her job to make sure all the actors looked right for the part and worked well with the camera. George was director, and made all the main decisions about how to shoot and wear to shoot. I was in charge of the camera, so I filmed all the shots and made sure they all worked with eachother and flowed to make good match on action.

I felt we fufilled our breif relatively well. We were asked to film a character opening a door, which we did successfully at the beggining of our film. We were also asked to have the character sitting at a table opposite another, which we also did successfully when having two characters exchanging drugs in the middle of our film. Furthermore they exchanged lines of dialogue, which was also required in our briefing.

Our briefing also included what type of filming techniques we needed to use. We were required to have correct use of match on action which I felt we did really well. We made sure all our filming flowed together well. One issue we did have was we had to film over two different days, and we were worried that the lighting etc would be wrong as we filmed outdoors. However we resolved this well by filming at the same time of day, making sure the weather was the same. We also made sure our actors looked the same and had the same costume. We wanted our film to be unique, so decided to include a montage at the beggining with music in the backgroud to set the scene. We shot different things around our school which looked edgy and a bit dodgy, to give the idea of problems and drug use. Within this montage we used a panorama shot, which I felt showed off our knowledge of different types of shots.

Although I felt our task was very successful, one thing we did wrong was unfortunatley our shot reverse shot. We analysed and understood our mistake and considered filming it again, however we were happy with what we already had, and felt changing it wouldn't make it as good. However to show our skills of shot reverse shot, we then filmed 20 seconds of another example of shot reverse shot, which is shown below:

Overall I felt although we had a problem with shot reverse shot, we resolved it in a mature way, and actually ended up with a very unique and interesting film, which not only had a good story line but also demonstrated our camera skills and our knowledge in media.