Preliminary task - Initial Planning

Preliminary task - initial planning

In our initial planning we established that we wanted our clip to fit into the genre of a thriller. By planning, filming and creating a thriller now, it will act as good practice for our final project. We originally wanted to create a clip which revealed an anti climax as we believed this would be a good creator of tension. However, we then reviewed our ideas and decided that the plot would become too complicated for such a short and simple task. Once we had simplified our story we started to brainstorm ideas on a piece of paper including ideas for camera shots, assigned roles, dialogue and other components for the footage.

Next we created a simplistic story board outlining the plot and movements of the scene and this helped us to visualize what our clip was going to look like and how the plot would fit together.
This was the first of our two story boards as it was important to create an initial one so we could then add to it and improve it's appearance, creating a final version of our planning summed up.

Finally we created a more detailed story board including types of camera shots and some ideas for sound effects for within each shot. This was naturally our next stage of planning as we started to look at the finer details which were necessary to plan before we started shooting the footage.