Animatic

Meeting four

Meeting four
Date of meeting 21 March 2013
Present in meeting
Tom Jarvis
Will Storey

This is the final meeting and all the preparation work has been done.

 The call sheet and shooting schedule marry up.

 Equipment and props are organised and we are ready for filming.

 Shooting can go ahead as planned with continguency plans in place. These being; change of location, back-up actors in the event of accident or illness. Make up and wardrobe has been organised.

All documentation relating to the planning is complete and gathered together. Everyone is familiar with their role and happy with what they have to do.

Actors are familiar with their scripts and ready to go.

Evidence of video experimentation

I experimented with some filming techniques that I would need in the filming of my thriller opening and evidenced this above.

One of the techniques that I experimented with was a tracking shot. In order to to this I mounted the camera onto a tripod and placed this on the tracking dolly. After familiarising myself with the camera and the workings of the tripod, I had a few practice runs, without filming, of guiding the tripod and camera along the tracks without it running off the ends. When I was confident with this I then started to record Alison walking across the room. I directed Alison to walk quite slowly to start with so that it gave me the chance to keep up with her. After a short time, she was instructed to walk at a normal pace and I soon mastered the art of moving the camera swiftly along the track in order to keep up with the walking pace.

The next technique that I practiced was the 'over the shoulder shot' and 'shot, reverse shot'. This was because one of the scenes for my thriller opening is of two policemen sitting either side of a desk and having a conversation about the murder of a girl. To do this I needed to consider the careful positioning of my tripod and camera so that I could get each of the actors in view. I found this reasonably easy after learning that I did not have to keep moving the camera from one actor to another throughout the conversation. I learnt about the most basic of continuity rules, which is the 180 degree rule. This is important when filming dialogue between two actors.