Preliminary Task - Pitch

Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

  • Title: Inmate
  • Genre: Detective/Crime
  • Form: Trailer 
  • Location: School and outside 
  • Time: Room is dark, flashbacks in the day time
  • Characters: Detective, Criminal
  • Plot outline: Criminal has been caught, being interviewed and whilst being interviewed he is having flashbacks of what happened and why he got caught.
  • Key micro features: Sound clips of Police cars, being out of breath, running, screams. Editing: screen flashes, lens flares. Camerawork: 180* rule, shot-reverse-shot, action-match. 
  • My Roles: Cameraman, Editor. 

Storyboard: