This is evidence of pre-production ideas that I will use to raise tension in our film.
58:Close Up
A close-up shot is when the camera is close up on a character’s face, accentuating the audience’s emotions toward that character. When an antagonist is on screen this is used to make the audience want to get away from the character and not see them. While it is also often used to show sympathy to a character due to the accentuation of their face.
73:Circular
A circular is a moving camera shot that wraps around a subject revealing more in the scene. It can rise tension dramatically while also increasing world-building due to its large range as a shot. This will be used in our film in the climax.
80:Rembrandt Lighting
Rembrandt lighting is sharp lighting that will contrast light and dark in the scene. It increases the dramatics of the scene and shows the contrast between the work/phone and the friend.
Test Shots
Focal lengths will remain consistent throughout the film.
Evidence of different camera placements.Evidence of different camera placements.
Lighting Tests
Lighting evidence through dark background and illuminated papers.Evidence of lighting.
Throughout the test soots I learned how to make the surroundings less dark and increase the contrast when in a dark environment.
Equipment Checklist
Tripod
Camera
3 Lights
3 batteries for Lights
3 Light Tripods
White Reflection Panel
Boom Mike
Audio Deck
Collaboration with Director
Evidence about locations.Evidence of negotiation about mise en scene.Evidence on lighting collaboration.
Set-up Sequence Workflow
Grab camera
Grab lights and batteries
Grab Tripod
Set up camera
Turn on and position the lights
Turn on preexisting lights
Organize props
Put the camera on a tripod
Film
Map of Each Location
Storyboard Notation
What I Learned
Throughout this pre-production session, I learned what changes we needed to make to our film in order to make it as good as possible. I got to experiment with lighting and learn how to make the film bright when in a dark environment. This will lead to a more polished film with fewer issues in production.
A conflicted person set’s down their phone to hang out with someone and struggles to go out due to deadlines, and the berating of their phone.
A person who is plagued with procrastination and a sense of failure for incompletion.
This person feels trapped in a cycle of procrastination to the point that when they try to break free they get sucked right back into the cycle.
PROTANGIONST CORE WOUND / MOTIVATION
Our protagonist seeks a way out of their cycle of procrastination and is looking to interact with people and become more intertwined in a society of people, not accounts, usernames, and deprecation.
GENRE
Drama
PLOT DESCRIPTION
The film opens with a shot of a character staring at a screen as we see notifications of deadlines and overdue work flash across. They then proceed to start “doom scrolling” when a text message from a friend appears asking to hang out. As they look up from their phone they see an orange light in the distance with a friend standing in it waving. Immediately they leap up from their chair and start to move toward it before a work notification dings with harsh blue light from the phone behind them. They look back and consider going toward the phone but see the orange light out of the corner of their eye and instinctively move toward it. Suddenly another even louder ding rings from the devices harsh blue light. They stand and look back and forth between the phone and the person who is now slowly fading away as the phone dings again even louder! They look back one last time at the person as they fade away to nothing and the film goes quiet. After a moment of pause we here a quiet ding of the phone. Our character looks back, walks toward it, sits down, and starts doom scrolling.
Does the Protagonist achieve their goal? No
TREATMENT
Complete a paragraph describing the protagonist’s world
This description helps the team build a better, more believable world
You may include wardrobe, family, friends, food choices, habits, hang-ups, etc.
Our character lives in a world the same as our own that visually appears as a black void. They feel trapped in technology and seek a way out into the “real world” but are unable to and retreat back to te technology.
INFLUENCES and EXAMPLES
List directors or other filmmakers FROM YOUR CHOSEN GENRE you are using for research and inspiration
List scenes FROM YOUR CHOSEN GENRE you are using for research and inspiration
Embed video clips of scenes that may influence or inspire stylistic choices in your film
