Preliminary Task (Story Board, Plan)

We have been set our Preliminary task which is to produce our own film opening which must include certain shots and techniques. Going into this task i have thought about what i need to do to make this film better than my Juno task. I have decided that i am going to use more still shots and make sure that my story board is detailed so that when we start filming, the process is more efficient.

In our first lesson we started by deciding on our film genre, we thought we could make a 'Gay romance film', as this would be controversial and moving for the audience. We changed this idea after we realized that people would over see the serious side to our idea and think it was funny. We changed our idea completely to a story about two best friends who fall in love with the same girl, the genre will be 'Rom-Com'. We decided to set the film at our school and aim the film at secondary school students. 

We also made our story board in this lesson. We started by looking at the shots we needed to film and the best places to film them in the school. We decided to use our schools music department for the made part of the scene as we wanted to use a high shot on the stairs. 

In this lesson we also went around the school and took pictures of possible places where we could film and reviewed them in the classroom as we were making the story board. These photographs are blow along with the story board.

Above is the story board for our prelim task.