Script
Ben Sherlock wrote the script for our group's project, an interrogation scene.
"In the scene, a grizzled detective named Frank McCready is interrogating a pedophile named Alan Smith who has kidnapped a young girl, Tabitha. We wanted the main tension to come from Frank's desperation to find out where this girl is. The audience is led to believe it is because of his passion for upholding the law, but the twist ending reveals it is because Tabitha is his daughter. We chose this subject matter as a group, and we handled it this way because we thought the action and the intensity would present more opportunities to use interesting camera angles, and it did. Also, we thought some gritty realism would add to the scene's cinematic integrity." - Ben Sherlock (1)
When the group were filming the task there was a lot of dialogue that was not originally on the script, as when it was spoken seem as what would be said in that type of situation. We agreed, also to tone down some of the violence in the scene, this was to make it more suitable, but we are pleased we decided to go with this direction as we thought it to make the character of Frank (Ben Sherlock) more likeable, and as the main protagonist, he's someone the audience should like and support. We think these changes hugely improved the scene and the project as it gave it an improvisational quality.
"In the scene, a grizzled detective named Frank McCready is interrogating a pedophile named Alan Smith who has kidnapped a young girl, Tabitha. We wanted the main tension to come from Frank's desperation to find out where this girl is. The audience is led to believe it is because of his passion for upholding the law, but the twist ending reveals it is because Tabitha is his daughter. We chose this subject matter as a group, and we handled it this way because we thought the action and the intensity would present more opportunities to use interesting camera angles, and it did. Also, we thought some gritty realism would add to the scene's cinematic integrity." - Ben Sherlock (1)
When the group were filming the task there was a lot of dialogue that was not originally on the script, as when it was spoken seem as what would be said in that type of situation. We agreed, also to tone down some of the violence in the scene, this was to make it more suitable, but we are pleased we decided to go with this direction as we thought it to make the character of Frank (Ben Sherlock) more likeable, and as the main protagonist, he's someone the audience should like and support. We think these changes hugely improved the scene and the project as it gave it an improvisational quality.
Direction
This sketch shows the camera movements we plan on using, and how we will position the camera around the set. There is a key in the top-right corner to show that the red line shows the movements of the Frank McCready's (Ben) character, the black dot to show where the camera will be placed, and the blue line shows which direction the camera will move in. These angles support the actions as written in the script, and so we think this will improve the look of the scene to flow with what is happening on-screen. Alan (Paddy) is revealed to be in green, but he has no movement as he stays seated for the whole scene. The angles are numbered so the Editor (also Paddy) knows what order to put them in during the editing process.
Storyboard
This is our group's storyboard, detailing each camera angle in the scene, which will be an very useful when coming to filming and the editing process. It gives us a visual representation of what the scene should ideally look like, this will also make the process easier to work, instead of all of us having to remember and/or improvise again, this would be much harder and more time consuming.
Bibliography
(1) http://bensherlock.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-max=2014-10-23T04:27:00-07:00&max-results=7&start=37&by-date=false
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