Preliminary Task

For this particular task, we have to record a character who walks into a room, sits opposite another character and then exchanges a couple of line of dialogue. We also have to include a reverse shot and a one hundred and eighty degree angle.

We have thought of two main ideas. The first idea was a game of cards, with a comedy side to a serious game. We would let them exchange money while the characters are focused from each side of their shoulders when addressing each other.

Our second idea we expanded on a lot more, which was a man with two personalities. We drew on some flash cards to show each individual scene. The first scene included the man slowly opening the door in silence and as he closes it he sees a man who looks similar to him on a table in the corner of the room and he is tapping his fingers against the table. For this part of the scene I am using a diegetic sound. When he gradually goes over to the character, he realises that it is himself. To do this effectively we would have to switch the camera angles so that the other person is only seen from the back of the head. To do this we are making sure that the other character which we are using has a similar hairstyle to the character who is being seen. He begins to remind him of when he killed someone with the murder weapon and the character begins to realise what he has done, and when the camera slowly moves out, he is the only one who is sitting around the table and he realises that he is the psychopathic character who was sitting opposite the chair, which represented his self conscience.

In these pictures, you can see that we took a photo of each camera angle and included Mise En Scene. In these particular freeze frames, you can see the setting of where the dialogue is exchanged and when the main character (Ryan Clarke) is walking into the room. We have shown that the scene is low key lighting and the setting symbolises that it's a horror/psychological film.