Storyboard for Preliminary Task

In our most recent lessons, we have been planning and filming our preliminary task.  Our preliminary task was to film a character walking to a room, into the room and then walking across the room to sit down and exchange dialogue with another character. On this setting we then got into groups and brainstormed a story to link with the task.

I worked with Daisy Stone, Natalie Carter and Jak Bower. Myself and Daisy brainstormed an idea of a romantic/comedy story where the male character fancies the female character and they exchange an awkward dialogue whilst they wait for their classmates to turn up. 

Following our decided plot, we made a story board of how the scenes were going to be positioned and what camera shots we would use to create the task in the most effective way possible. 

Our shots were:

• Walking down the corridor (Medium Long shot)
• Walking past the window (Medium shot)
• Walking through the door (Reverse shot)
• Coming through the door (Reverse shot)
• Walking across the room (Medium shot)
• Shot of the character's face (Close-up)
• Slow motion shot of Female character (Medium shot)
• Shot of the Male character's face (Close up)
• Two characters sat down (Medium shot)
• Two characters exchanging dialogue (Reverse shot)
• Shot of male character tapping the pen (Close up)
• Focusing on the pen (Extreme close up)
• Female character gazing around the room (Close up)
• Both characters in silence (Medium shot)
• View of the characters in the room (Long shot)
• Wider view of the whole setting (Establishing shot)

Furthermore, we organised the camera angles, here are some of the angles we used:

• Medium Long shot - Eye Level angle
• Medium shot - Eye Level angle 
• Close up- Low angle
• Medium shot- Low angle
• Close up- Eye level 
• Close up- High angle
• Extreme close up- high angle
• Close up- low angle
• Long shot - High angle
• Establishing shot - Birds eye angle

To go along with the decided angles and shots, we produced a story board to represent our visions. 

Our Storyboard:

Here is our script for the preliminary task:

Nat: Hello…Hello…?!

Jak: Sorry, what?

Nat: So, where is everyone?

Jak: Oh, I-I dunno.

Nat: *sighs