Storyboard and Preliminary Task

- Lesson 1 19/01/10 -

The very start of the lesson was made up by the creation of this blog as a way to track and record what I and my group are doing over the course of this task.

In this lesson we were introduced into the course, and started with our preliminary task. We were informed on how to correctly use the video camera, and told techniques like panning, rule of thirds and the 180 degree rule. We were also told how to change the lighting for indoors and outdoors to make sure that the colours and darkness are ok. We then started by getting into groups, with me were Henna and Robert. We created a spider diagram of our ideas, showing what we wanted to do with our video. We noted down the speech that would be done between the characters, and ideas for a location, props and costume. We also wrote down a couple of camera angles that we wanted to use, and wrote down the 180 degree rule to make sure we didn't make mistakes. We were happy with our rough ideas and started to work on our storyboard, but didn't have time to make any progress and instead finished the lesson with a blank sheet.

This is our spider diagram, which shows all of our ideas for the task. When we made the diagram, we were considering the location, costume, props, camera shots, characters and what would be said in the piece.