AS Media Studies: September 2016

Preliminary Task: Location Planning

Establishing shot - the big office building on Trafalgar Road, Kettering (there is a possibility of filming from the car park)

Interior corridor & room shots - Keystone Youth Centre, 97 Rockingham Road, Kettering

Preliminary Task: Filming Schedule

Agent A: Temperamental, attached to his teammates and extremely loyal. Agent A is distraught by the news of a failed mission - meaning one of his teammates has died. He will be played by Sam Thomson, who will be a great physical and emotional actor from what we have seen when working with him in our Drama class.

Agent B: Reserved, drinks to escape, and secretly emotional. Agent B has to inform Agent A about the failed mission and death of their close colleague, then deal with Agent A's outburst. He will be played by Ashley Paddick, who is also in our Drama class and is skilled with morbid acting.

Preliminary Task: Creating a Storyboard from Initial Ideas

From our initial ideas we have firstly created a mind map based around the concept we wanted to continue working with, so that all of our possible suggestions and ideas would clarify and we could continue working knowing exactly what we wanted to do.

Our finished (and very messy) mindmap

From that mind map, we have created a 17 shot composition about a secret agent (Agent A) walking into a room, meeting another agent (Agent B) who then reports that a mission has failed. We have considered a variety of different shots, angles and movements in order to create a short, yet intense and interesting clip.

This task was set as a 12 shot challenge (as it can be seen on the mind map) - essentially, our aim was to create a short film consisting of 12 shots. On each storyboard panel (that was the form in which our 12 shots had to be explained) we had to include: shot number, whether it was exterior or interior, location, type of shot, camera movement and angle, the cast required and any other necessary notes we thought may matter (such as dialogue). Additionally, we had to include a rough drawing of what we thought the shot would look like. Although we exceeded the number of shots by quite a lot, we felt this was necessary to tell the story we created and still show good level of technical skills.

Below are the pictures of our 17 storyboard panels: