Preliminary Task

On Monday my group and I filmed our preliminary task, we filmed a short scene and the shots that we took will be edited in our next lesson. Our short scene involved two girls being locked inside a haunted school, we tried to create a sense of tension and horror by using a variety of shots such as close ups and point of view shots. When we come to the stage where we will be editing, we are going to lower the brightness of the shots this is because we are aiming to create a scary and tense atmosphere, we are also going to do this to give the impression that this was filmed in the dark, which suggest they are locked in the school at night time. We also used some other skills and techniques whilst filming:

• Match on Action
• Shot Revers Shot 
• 180 degree rule

We also used other shots such as:

• Point of View
• Low Angle Shot
• Close Up
• Extreme Close Up
• We also used the handheld effect when recording, this involves the cameraman to hold camera without a tripod and running, this is because it gives the effect that its a face pace chase scene, it makes the audience visualize that the person holding the camera is chasing the person in front of them, this supports our genre of horror.       

When it comes to the editing stage of our preliminary task we will be using Adobe Premier to edit our shots, we will use the shots that we filmed on Monday to create our short scene. Moreover during the editing stage we might alter the speed/duration of one of our clips. Also we may include a piece of music over the top of our scenes to give the horror effect, we might get this music from the internet or we might create the music ourselves.                                                                                

This is my animatic of my storyboard. It will last ten shots and a about one minute. The story is based on horror where there is someone who is hiding from the monsters inside the school.