Preliminary task script

Preliminary Task

Shots our film should show:

• Shot/reverse shot
• 180 degree rule
• Match on match action

Script:

EMILY - Camera Work
BECKY - Physco
KIM - Police officer

BECKY

(sat down)
EMILY

(films door and physco)

(Kim's walks in holding folder and sits down. film over shoulder sitting down)

using  180 degree rule.

KIM 

This conversation is being recorded for evidence, the time is 17.04 therefore this interrogation will now begin.
(KIM HOLDS OUT PHOTOGRAPH)
KIM

Do you know this girl?
BECKY

No
KIM

Where were you on the 01/01/2011 at 2.00am?
BECKY 

I stayed in to celebrate the new year.
KIM

Do you have any witnesses to that?
  BECKY

Nope, i spent it alone.
KIM

We have evidence to place you at the scene of the crime Mrs.grave.
  BECKY

Impossible.
KIM

Your finger prints were at the scene
  BECKY

(LAUGH)

Thriller Genre

Thriller is a genre of literature film, within this there are different sub-genres, some of these include..

- Conspiricy Thriller - for example the 1997 American film Conspiricy Theory, the original screenplay by Brian Helgeland centers on an eccentric taxi driver who believes many world events are triggered by government conspiricies.

- Crime Thriller - 2005 Bruce Willis film, Hostage is a crime thriller based on the a book version of the story.

- Science Fiction Thriller - Knowing is an American film released in 2099, set in Melbourne Australia. A teacher openss a time capsule that has been dug up at an elementary shcool,  the character played by Nicholas Cage has a son who recives a letter from this particular time capsule containing a page full of numbers, which leads his father to come up with some chilling predictions as to what they mean, it then leads him to believe his family plays a role in the dangerous events that are about to unfold.

- Erotic Thriller -

- Legal Thriller
- Medical or phycological Thriller
- Mystery Thriller
- Supernatural Thriller



There is no exact definition of the thriller genre, it is mainly characterised through the "sudden rush of emoitions". Basically a thriller thrills, mostly through skillful plotting. Generally a standalone thriller keeps the audience on the "edge of their seats" with sometimes constant cliffhangers. The plot usually arrises and the tension builds with a situation where the character(s) are placed in such situations which it seems near impossible to get away from.

Prelimary Task My Edited Version

 

This is  my edited version of our preliminary task with changed credits, sound during these credits at the beginning and end could have improved it to help set the mood, although it shows everything the preliminary task asks.

Preliminary Task

 

For our preliminary task we had to show the 180 degree rule, shot reverse shot and match on match action. 

180 degree shot is the basic guideline in film making which states that two characters or such like should have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects it is called crossing the line. The diagram above shows th camera on the left and the fact that is does not move around further than 180 degrees and therefore follows the rule. This type of shot is usually used for conversations between two characters.

These three shots show our shot/reverse shot action of the 180 degree rule, and shows the rule of the audience seeing the same side behind that character showing them looking both in the opposite direction assuming they are looking at each other while having the conversation.

Match on match action or a match cut is used in film editing which shows two features/subjects/characters which graphically match which often helps to establish strong continuity of action and links the two shots metaphorically.

Shot reverse shot is a technique where one character is shown looking at another character and then the other shown looking back at them in the opposite direction, so the viewer assumes they are looking at them.