Planning- Prelim Deconstrution

Planning for preliminary task

Firstly, we thought of and made notes of our idea and concept. We discussed the actors we needed, which was three girls, myself, Lauryn and Kelsey. We then discussed who was going to be in which part, Lauryn and Kelsey were the girls trying to get revenge. We discussed where we were going to film our video, we decided this would be in the media room, the corridor just outside the media room and up the staircase leading up to the media room, all at school. We decided to film on Monday 28^th September, as then we had the rest of the week to edit and produce the final result. My group created a storyboard that shown what we wanted our preliminary video to be. It consisted on 6 illustrations that were in the order we wanted. The first illustration was of two girls in conversation facing each other, this included the 180 degree rule. The second illustration was of a flashback of a girl fake kissing a boy. The third was of the revenge girls slapping the school books out of the other girls’ hands. The next was of the girl getting slapped by the two girls getting revenge. The fifth was of the two girls going into the room, where match on action was used, and getting hold of the files. The last was of the two girls throwing oranges at the other girl, who is laying on the floor. This was our initial plan that we used as a guide throughout filming.

Our storyboard made a very good guide line for us to work with whilst filming as if we went off on a tangent whilst filming, we could look at the storyboard and we would go back to our original plan. When we discussed the acting roles, we communicated very well with each other and worked well as a group to work out who would be best for what role, this made the process much quicker and stress-free.

We encountered some problems when drawing up the storyboard. I was elected to draw the illustrations and I don’t feel as though I was the best at drawing in the group, some of the drawings can appear to be unclear and don’t show what the shots were meant to be clearly.

If I could go back and plan again, I would get someone else to draw in the group, or spend slightly more time drawing to make the illustrations clearer and easier to understand.