Evaluation of the Preliminary task. 10.02.2010

On our preliminary task, we had to look at a scene in which a character would walk in, to another character who was already in the room. Dialogue is also used coming from both characters. In our project, our genre was a comedy spoof on police drama. This is shown from how serious in which the first 20 seconds are on the investigator (played by Jenni Dack) walking down the corridor into the interview room. The first sign of this short film is the first glimpse of the accused (played by Whitney Mckernan) in which is from the contrast of what she has been accused of.

We had to look at, location, costume and props. Firstly, changes were made a lot depending on where the location was going to be. For example, we were going to film on the Sprowston High School site but because of problems with timing and getting the selected room at a good enough time was a problem. We ended up filming on the actual Sewell Park College site as it was easier and the particular room in which we used was the best for what we wanted for this task.

On the costumes situation, we had to keep the investigator as conservative and smart, as well as it being dark and dull, as we were trying to show the representation of a typical investigator. The smart clothing was kept on during the whole of the short film. The reason for the dark and dull clothing was because we wanted a large contrast as well as the 'joke' in the contrast by putting the accused in very colourful and contrasting colours to bring out the randomness. We decided on the accused to be foreign to make it funnier with the dialogue. For example, one piece of dialogue is when the investigator says 'Don't lie! We all know it's true, we all know you're the murderer!' in which the accused doesn't understand fully what the investigator said and replies, 'What about a hamburger?'. This the main humour in which the rest of the scene is leading onto.

Not a lot of props were needed during this task as it was just a simple police investigating room so nothing was really needed. However, a folder was needed just as a small gesture and to help the audience to see who are the character and to show more of a normal, realistic character.