HCL/MS: Preliminary Task Brief

Brief:

• Continuity editing: varying distances and angles,pans, Steadicam,Handicam,cutaways
• 180 degree rule ensures the correct perspective,shot reverse shot,over the shoulder shot,when could you break this rule and stop the audience becoming disorientated
• Two lines of dialogue: consider diegetic sound,conventional of genre, part of narrative
• opening door,framing,close up shot

Ideas:

• For our preliminary task we came up with the idea of a Thriller drama involving a young man in a classroom intoxicated by drugs.

Plot:

• Young man in classroom has a disorientated nightmare/daydream and is hallucinating after taking the drugs
• He is absorbed in a daydream of himself attempting to escape other drug users who are influencing him into taking them
• The boy is in perilous and vulnerable position as he becomes scared within his own dream

Storyboard:

• Our 4 main shots consist of a long shot, close up, POV and Reaction shot
• Long shot is used to show young man intoxicated by drugs reacting in abnormal way juxtaposed to the rest of the students interacting with each other 
• Close up is used to show the expression on the young mans face whilst he is experiancing a nightmare
• POV shot is used to show the young man not entirely in control of his body as he walks in a disjointed manner and adds verimisimilitude
• Reaction shot is used to reinforce to the audience particular and significant scenes that are happening in the young man's nightmare...