Preliminary Task

Deadlines:
Finished filming: Monday 11th 2010
Finished editing: Wednesday 13th 2010

Script: “THE GUMMY BEAR THIEF”

Characters:
Leon- Criminal
Jemima- Police officer

Leon sitting on chair (medium close up/mid shot)

Jemima opens the door, walks in across the room and sits down
opposite Leon (separate shots)

Jemima bangs sweet bag on table (close up of hand, camera follows arm to Jemima’s face- close up)

Jemima: How do you explain this? This is a Class A gummy bear! (Stern authoritative voice) (medium close up)

Passes exhibit bag to Leon (over the shoulder shot)

Leon pushes exhibit bag away (close up)

Whilst Leon speaks he holds his hands up (medium close up)

Leon: They’ve got the wrong person, I don’t even shop in Tesco I shop in Sainsbury’s! (defensive tone) (medium close up)

REVERSE SHOT

Jemima: Wait (pause) how do you know it’s from Tesco? (Medium shot)

REVERSE SHOT

Leon: It was a guess…um…yeah it was a guess. (Apprehensive tone) (Medium shot)

REVERSE SHOT

Jemima: And, you were arrested in Tesco’s so obviously you do shop there. Your photo has been posted in all the Tesco branches; I’ve been tracking you down for a long time. (medium shot)

Slams wanted poster on the table: WANTED SERIAL GUMMY BEAR THIEF WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE PRIZE: 1000 GUMMY BEARS CALL: 999

Jemima passes poster to Leon

REVERSE SHOT

Leon picks it up, looks at it.

Leon: That’s not me it’s my twin! (MLS)

Stands up suddenly, a pile of gummy bear’s fall on the floor. (Close up of gummy bears)


THE END
(NOTE: SOME CHANGES WERE MADE TO THE SCRIPT DURING FILMING)

What we had to include:

For our preliminary task we had to show a character opening a door, then the same character crossing the room and sitting down opposite another character. After this they had to be seen exchanging dialogue with each other. We also had to show our ability at using the following techniques:

Match on action shot - technique can preserve temporal continuity where there is a uniform, unrepeated physical motion or change within a passage. A match on action is when some action occurring before the temporally questionable cut is picked up where the cut left it by the shot immediately following. For example, a shot of someone tossing a ball can be edited to show two different views, while maintaining temporal continuity by being sure that the second shot shows the arm of the subject in the same stage of its motion as it was left when cutting from the first shot.

Shot/reverse shot - is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking "back" at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.

180 degree rule - A cinematographic technique which states that the camera must remain on the same side of an imaginary line, perpendicular to the camera's viewpoint, from which the establishing shot is taken. The 180 degree rule is an important element of the continuity style. To make sure that I understood the 180 degree rule I watched this video about it on youtube:

Preliminary Task Film:





Evaluation:

Preliminary Task Evaluation Report

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