Preliminary Exercise Questions

How Did You Plan Your Sequence? What Processes Did You Use?
We each were allocated with a task involved in the planning of our sequence so that everyone would be equelly involved in the process. We first of all discussed our ideas as a group and discussed appropriate actors, location and plot, then once we had roughly written down and story boarded our best idea we each went away and did our bit.
Shaun created a storyboard for our sequence so that we could see visually how each shot would look and how well they would fit together. It would give us a feel of how the sequence would flow when it is put together and it would help us decide what would be an appropriate order for our shots, in order to make the continuity correct.
Amelia and Mia then went on to construct a shooting script once we had decided on our shots and storyboarded them. This helped us find an appropriate order for our shots to be shot in so that it would take up as little time as possible and work most efficiantly. The shooting script was not the order that our shots would finally be put in, just an order that would make it easier and less time consuming as shooting the shots in the order they are storyboarded would take up too much time and there would be far too many mistakes involved in the continuity.
I then went away to write the script for our sequence. This would help us when it came down to the continuity of the sequence as the conversation shots would have to be shot a number of times and in order for us to be able to do effective continuity editing we would have to keep the dialogue the same.
We did a few run throughs of the sequence before it was shot just to make sure the actors and location were appropriate and worked with the plot. This would help prevent any problems that we could of come accross during shooting and gave us a chance to resolve them then and there.