Preliminary Exercise;

Filming a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down on a chair opposite another character, with whom he/she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.

My group decided to make the preliminary exercise more interesting and complicated with a dramatic story line which is unrealistic. We had to make sure match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule was used in our clip.

Lewis is a mental patient, Daniel is his care worker trying to get Lewis back to the mental home as Lewis ran away to hide from the apparent 'Aliens'. Daniel finds Lewis in a office block and try's to help get him back to the mental home but Lewis doesn't want help and saves Daniel's life from the apparent Aliens by chucking him out of the window.

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Shot reverse shot;

Match on action;

180 degree;

We used short shots to keep the audience interested and wondering what is going to happen next as the story-line is very unusual so there is a sense of mystery within it. The mise-en-scene is a school block which we have chosen to be an office block that Lewis had strolled in to trying to hide from the 'aliens' as he believes it is safe because it is a large building. The characters are very different people, Daniel is a normal caring man who is trying to save Lewis because he is his carer and doesn't want anything bad to happen as he has known him for years, he is similar to a 'hero' in a film. Lewis has mental problems and is not really sure what is going on as he thinks aliens are invading the earth and he is scared and lonely. The dialogue choice wasn't very planned, we decided a story line and most of the dialogue was just created on the spot whilst filming which ended up working very well, Daniel and Lewis were the actors in this clip as they are more comfortable on camera which makes it look more real and serious, i filmed as i know how to use all of the camera correctly. 

After filming we uploaded the clips on to Imovie and chose which clips worked better to create the scene, we cropped certain bits out as some areas were longer than they needed to be. We then edited all of the clips so they were black and white to create a more mysterious effect making it look like there's no brightness in Lewis's life, after this we added noises such as a creaky door to make it all seem more creepy, also we added a wind sound so the weather comes across worse than it was and we smashed glass to create the sound of Daniel smashing through the window. The music was added in afterwards, we chose this song because to us it came across as a very strange tone and sounded like it was what Lewis could be hearing in his head, it also sets the mood of the type of clip it is going to be.