GROUP:Ideas for the Preliminary Task

• We were told by our teacher that for our preliminary task we needed to meet a few requirements.
• We needed to include continuity editing to create a piece that flowed and was continuous.
• There must be the use of the 180 degree rule is the sequence. This is to make the characters easily identifiable to the audience in sections of dialogue or when two characters are needing to be identified for continuity.
• We must include a door being opened by a character  
• There must be at least two lines of dialogue 
• We were not allowed to film a main road or in the toilets 
• There must be no explicit or offencive language used.

•  We thought that it would be good practise to abide by the rule of thirds as well as fulfilling the various tasks set out by our teacher.
• We sat down and thought of several ideas that we may wish to choose and settled on the idea of some sort of deal between two characters that goes wrong. We thought there could be some kind of phone call to one character and then an exchange of a bag is made. One character then realises there is nothing in the bag and gives chase to the other. This would be good to practise the 180 degree rule and also effects and camera angles.
• We thought of using low camera angles for each character to make them seem of equal status but also of high status and imposing. 
• we also believed that we should make the sequence slightly comical as this would be easy for certain members of the group that we thought would be best for acting
• We then decided we would include a phone call, a close up, extreme close up, establishing shot, shot reverse shot, over the shoulder shot and high angle shot. This would present and array of angles and make our piece interesting.
• As the chase begins the cutting rate should increase as this is what we have seen happens in many opening sequences when there is heightened tension.
• We decided that the best people for certain jobs are as followed
  
  Henry Cramer-Todd: Cinematographer
  Jake Piercy: Actor 1
  Connor Fitzgerald: Actor 2