Saul Bass

Above is a presentation which gives an insight into Saul Bass and what I learnt from his ideas and works on opening titles of a film. From his works I realised that for my own piece of work, I could make it clear of what representation of characters would be seen in the film, and the overall theme by making it intriguing for the audience, and clear that it was a horror.

Rule of Thirds: various other shot types, with camera movements

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Preliminary Task: Video Piece

This piece is our recorded final piece of our preliminary task, from the planning stages of the storyboard and shot list. As you can see from viewing the piece we used match on action where Jack's character of 'Dre' was seen to grasp the handle of the door, then enter the room where we tried as a group to make sure that there was a consistent flow kept between this action, so their was no unnatural movement. In addition we also used the 'shot reverse shot' movement, where by the audience could easily identify Dre and the teacher to have a conversation which flowed naturally with no unnatural movement, like the match on action with Dre entering the room. This made it seem as if the conversation was effectively shown to the audience.

To improve for our final piece, i'd definitely consider using various angles for shots rather than just one the whole way through the piece. For example we could've used a low angle shot in front of the teachers desk, to display her authority over Dre's by using a high angle shot to show him entering the room, which would perceive him as weak and vulnerable against the teacher.

Preliminary Task Planning

Here is our storyboard displaying what will happen within our prelim video. As you can see we still with the main character of who I will play within our group having a tracking shot moving down a hallway. This suggests to the audience we are following the character without them even realising, which audiences may appeal to as we are following the character's story closely. This is just the beginning shot of our storyboard outlines each scene and the story within each one, outlining shot types of the characters.

Below is an explanation of each shot type following from the storyboard, and what each shot will mainly consist of. We will use a variety of six different shot types, to enhance certain scenes and character feelings within the short, recorded piece. We've split our video into three main sections with a plot below which states the three stages of the video. 

Stage One: Missing person or in this case student which has been identified by the school, of who they are attempting to find using available sources.

Stage Two: Head teacher calls Dre to the office knowing that he could have information of this persons whereabouts.

Stage Three: Dre isn't revealing anything to the Headteacher, yet she has suspicions of him knowing of where the missing student could be. She presents a small bag with a white powder substance in and informs Dre of the bag being found in the missing person's locker.