Preliminary Task- Planning

For our preliminary task, we were assigned into groups of four by our teachers, my group consisted of Edward Barker, Megan Russell, Hannah Jarvis and myself. To begin our preliminary task, we created a mind map to give us a basic idea of what our short clip would be like. On our mind map, we wrote down some basic ideas for different shots, what types of editing we would be using, the props we would need for the clip and the names and costumes that our characters would be wearing.

Our mind map we made to write down some initial ideas for our short clip

We went with the first title for a film we thought of, 'The Stuff'. The movie title wasn't very creative but left some mystery in the plot of the film, also we didn't want to spend a lot of time on the title of the film since it wasn't our final piece of work. To summarise the plot for this short film, it is about two people played by Edward and myself who's roles in the clip remain ambiguous and it is never revealed which one of the two is the protagonist and antagonist. I played the role of Tony Zagrafos whereas Edward played 'Mr G'. The plot of the clip was that Tony Zagrafos had been sent to Mr G to collect an ambiguous object (The Stuff), but the plan doesn't succeed and ends with Mr G killing Tony Zagrafos. We also wrote a short script and produced a storyboard to make it easier to make the clip when it comes to recording it. The script and the storyboard are shown below.

Our script for 'The Stuff'

Our storyboard we created for 'The Stuff'