Preliminary Exercise Task 12
For the preliminary exercisem, we have to produce an opening shot of a movie. The exam board requires we create this exercise so that we have a starting point to work from before we actually start filming.
Planning and Research
20% of the coursework is for this part. The storyboard we have to create has to be an animatic storyboard, We need to blog the research. The research includes the research of the openings of films with the same genre that we want to follow. We also need to research the conventions of any opening sequence. E.g. Titles or job titles are examples of what you need to include in your piece of work.
Film
This part is the most important part of the coursework. While we are filming we have to think about editing. We have to produce an opening sequence and we need to think about the use of mis-en-scene, e.g. the camerawork (the shots and composition), The sound (wether it is non-diegetic, diegetic or wether the sound levels are too high) and lighting (is the scene too bright or too dark?)
Evaluation
This part is worth another 20% of the marks and it cannot be an essay. It has to be a multimedia presentation. We need to include things like screenshots of the film, audio (which could be talking to the media teacher about the film) or it could be a powerpoint presentation.