Preliminary task - group project

Script

I wrote the script for our group project, an interrogation scene. In the scene, a grizzled detective named Frank McCready is interrogating a paedophile 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.

When we filmed it, the dialogue differed from the script, as when it was spoken it didn't sound as natural as when it was written. We also had to tone down some of the torture and violence, due to a lack of resources, but we're glad it turned out this way because we also believe this kept the character of Frank more likeable, and as the main protagonist, he's someone the audience should root for. We think these changes vastly improved the scene and gave it an improvisational quality.

Direction

This diagram represents the camera movements we will use, and how we will position the camera around the room. There is a key in the top-right corner to show that the red line shows the movements of the Frank McCready character, the black dot 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 help the look of the scene to flow with what is happening on-screen. Alan is represented as green, but he has no movement as he stays seated for the whole scene. The angles are numbered so we will know what order to put them in during the editing process.

Storyboard

This is our storyboard, detailing each camera angle in the scene, which will be an invaluable resource, both whilst filming and whilst editing. It gives us a visual representation of what the scene should look like, and it will make the process easier to have it to work from, instead of all four of us having to visualise the whole thing in our heads, which would give us each different visions. This storyboard will come in handy.