Planning Process

Planning Process

Initial Ideas, Script and Actors

We started by all discussing and writing down initial thoughts on what we could film. Once we had finished we had thought of three different ideas. But we decided in the end to opt for a police interview. Once we had come to the conclusion of what scene we were going to film, Connor started to write the script. He did some research by watching some TV inspector shows and noted some conventions of what the dialogue was like. Once he had finished the script was went about casting some actors. Our first actor Connor, who is a part of our group, we cast to play the suspect being interviewed. Our second actor Goddard who is not in our group was cast to play the inspector.

Shot Planning and Finding a Set

Once we had finalised our ideas we started to make our story board. We wanted both our actors to be sitting opposite each other and essentially forced into making eye contact, which overall would make our scene tenser. We designed out shots so we would not break the 180 degree rule and drew them out so we knew what we were doing when filming. As soon as we had finished making our story board we moved onto finding the right set in which we could film the scene. We thought about using one of the members of the group houses but we decided in the end to film in one of the offices in our school. The room was fairly small but had a table in the middle which was perfect for filming a police interrogation. Once we settled for the office as our set we moved onto planning the day of the shoot.

The Shoot

After we had gathered the correct equipment, we started to create our set. I was in charge of cinematography so I made sure that each shot was lit and framed to the best of my ability. Connor and Thor was also included in making sure that the scene was lit correctly. I was in charge of Mise En scene and making sure there was no clutter in the frames or any other type of flaws. Once everything was in place we began to shoot our shots and filming them more than once so we could have a backup. We ticked off which shot we had filmed one by one to makes sure that nothing was missed out. After we had finished filming of the interrogation. We set a date in which we were going to film the opening scene and establishing shot. But unfortunately our lead actor Connor had to have an operation which ruled him out altogether. He was key to this shot as we see how he makes his way into the interrogation room. We had to leave this shot in the end as our deadline was drawing closer.

Editing

I was mainly in charge of editing, but made sure than the other members of my group had their fair share of the edit so in future they would have the experience when making their coursework pieces. It was a fairly straight forward edit and we did not encompass many problems. It took a few days to get the edit right to make sure everyone was happy. Then we rendered out final piece and uploaded it to YouTube.