Preliminary task

For my preliminary task I was given a brief, this included making a short film. The film had to include a shot-reverse-shot and a match on action shot.I  was put into my coursework group with two others from my class (Holly Cook and Emily Kelly). 

On the 10th of October we had to start storyboarding for our short films. Firstly we discussed what genre we were going to do and swiftly came to the conclusion that the genre we were going for was horror. The reason for this decision was that we felt it enabled us to achieve what we wanted via signifiers. 

We started storyboarding and made 12 boxes which included what the shot will include, how long it is, any dialogue, non-diegetic sound, type of shot and the shot number.

The plot of the film was that a girl is followed by another, into a room. When girl 2 enters the room it appears girl 1 has disappeared. Girl 2 discovers a boy tied up. She releases him and asks 'who did this to you' before he has the chance to answer girl 1 takes girl 2. Girl 2 also gets tied up. It fades out into a black shot and we decided this was the best place to leave it to gather suspense and enigma.