Preliminary Task

During our first session when discussing the genre of our preliminary and coming up with ideas, we came up with many different types of films that we could do. One of these ideas was to do a Silent film and have the dialogue written inside a frame such as the one on the right hand side:
However, we decided against this as it would take a long time to edit, to find music to fit and we wanted to concentrate on the mise-en-scene and camera shots and angles for the preliminary so we had an idea of what worked and what didn't. Our second choice was to do comedy. Our idea was of a prank gone wrong. We eventually decided against this idea as we thought it would be more useful to do the horror genre because then we would be able to practice appropriate camera angles, mise-en-scene and sound that would create a horror atmosphere, helping us make our main task more polished.
Once we had decided on horror we started brainstorming structures for our scene. We decided to stick with concentrating on mise-en scene and camera shots and so decided we did not want a complicated narrative. When we were thinking of ideas for our scene, we were struggling with which shots to put first and so I suggested that we should block out our shots before we wrote them down so we knew roughly what order we wanted them to be in. It was then suggested that we film our progress of ideas so that we did not forget what we had discussed before we had time to write it down and also to help us discover what was a practical way to use the camera and what wasn't. This is my group coming up with the basic ideas and then developing them further with a few of the shots we thought of. There are some written ideas of other shots that we added in to help us remember roughly what order to put them in. Once we had done this and then looked back on our findings, we drew up our storyboard.