Main Task Video

Deleted Scene For Main Task

Media Evaluation

Main Task- pre production

Our group came up with the idea of mixing a mixture of different ideas into making our opening sequence. We decided to base our film on the demise and down fall of wealthy businessman Albert depicting his suicide and mental break down, we then decided a 3^rd person point of view was best suited for this to create realism, we would need to go to a high building. I wrote the script along with the help of my group and we each did our storyboards. We decided we decided that I should play the role of Albert due to my colour to challenge the views of successful business men being of Caucasian background. Unfortunately we had to change this, due to Raymond’s fear of heights. We originally had a female member playing Frances but she had to unfortunately drop out of sixth form. We worked very hard to create the script and media piece and also had an out side source create a piece of music for us to suit the film best. We were all impressed with the piece and decided to use it for the opening scene with greater effect. The storyboard was the hardest to do drawing wasn’t my strong point and I found this part long and tedious to do.

Preliminary task-Video

Main Task - Production

The filming was done in sections; we filmed all the scenes which depicted Albert on the top of the building first this was done at the oracle car park in reading town centre. Ellis and Anna got permission to take the camera out of school and go to this location to film this scene, unfortunately due to my fear of heights I could not take part in this part of the filming. When we arrived at the town center, Ellis changed into his costume, costumes help the audience delve in to the film and relate to the character more. We got permission to film on the top of the Oracle car park and started filming. The one thing our group did not put in to consideration was the amount of wind on the day and the effect it would have on the film it self. The wind meant that stabilizing the camera with out a tripod would be very challenging. We proceeded with filming and gave our best attempt at producing a still and stable piece of film. We made sure that we had at least two or more shots on each angle stated in the script. Looking back the effect the wind and lighting had on the footage was quite positive; it created a very dramatic effect and added weight to the film.
We then proceeded to film the over the edge shot of our main task, this was done in our school playground at a high wall and a low angle shot to make the distance look greater. We wanted to give the impression that Albert was about to leap to his faith with the low angle shot we achieved this motive. This was a scene in which I my self filmed and we didn't do any re-takes as we thought the film was fine first time. We also did some other which will be shown in our deleted scenes.
Lastly Ellis filmed the part in which Anna was acting. We proceeded to the school library to film this, it seemed as the best suited area in which we could effectively film the scene in witch Anna receives the phone call from Albert depicted in the 1^st scene. because we had so many scene this gave us the option to select which one was best suited for the main task.

Main Task - Post-Production

After filming, we assessed each piece of footage and began the editing process. Although before editing had began, we had to carefully select each individual scene and decide whether to keep or dispose of it, this is where some of our footage was deleted. While selecting the footage, we got input from various other members of the class and not only just our group members. We then began the editing process using Adobe 3 with the help of Farhan Sadique, we then shortened the length of the video and added fades to merge scenes together. The editing was more of a team effort as various members offered and delivered various imputes to this part of the production.