For our pre-production we started with making a storyboard to plan our prelim. The storyboard was useful to us because it helped us plan our prelim and also helped us decide the type of shot, how many seconds the shot would be, if we was going to use a cut, fade or dissolve, the shot size, the camera angle, the lighting, the colours in frame, the setting of the shot, props, costumes and sounds that were going to be involved in the shot. Also the storyboard helped us visualise the shot as we drew a picture of what the shot would look like and also have a brief description of the action in the shot.
Also before we started filming our prelim Year 13 students that had taken Media Studies in Year 12 helped us with learning how we used the cameras and tripods. This was helpful as some of us may not have known how to use the cameras or tripods before and we learned knew things about how to use the cameras and how to set up the tripods, also another factor is that the Year 13 students had been in our position before whilst making our prelim. This helped as they knew our situation and knew tips to give us as they had been in our position before.
Before we started our prelim we had watched other prelims from years before. This gave us an idea of how we should shoot our prelim and how long it should be. It also gave us ideas on what to do our prelim on. Errors we saw in these prelims was that some camera angles shouldn’t have been used, props, setting and the actual plan of the prelim. We learned lessons from these on what not to do in our prelim and what to do. This gave us ideas on how to structure our prelim and what type of camera angles should be used within it.
By Joshua Thomas
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