The Brief: Preliminary task

Preliminary exercise:

Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Main task:

The titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.

All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both preliminary and main tasks may be done individually or as a group. Maximum four members to a group.

We have decided to make a preliminary task based around a clash of personalities, where one character has commited a murder, but his conscience is trying to make him face reality. The character keeps telling himself that it's not his fault and that everything will be fine, but his conscience is pushing him over the edge. It will start off with the character walking into the room and there will be his conscience sitting on the chair opposite the table. When the character sits down his conscience starts to speak to him, reminding him of what he has done, but he won't accept it and sarts to shout at him, but as the camera zooms out and he is the only one sitting there, he was imagining everything.