This is the brief for your first full film sequence.
‘A short (2-3 minute) suspense sequence from a ghost story.’
Your creative intentions should be clearly identified at the outset and your reflections throughout and once complete will be based on them. You must also reflect on your developing understanding of your production role(s).
You must always keep a record of the production process and upload evidence of your work throughout (at least once a week) to your reflective journal.
The creative intentions may be drawn from this list and you should identify 3-5. You may choose others or modify these as you wish.
- Create a sense of…mystery, suspense, intrigue, fear… in a given place.
- Suggest a monstrous character or presence.
- Introduce a tense, frightened, naive… victim.
- Build a sequence to a shocking/scary crescendo.
- Use specific cinematography techniques from German Expressionist film.
- Use montage editing to develop a sense of place and/or compress time.
- Use continuity editing to make sense of a characters (inter)actions.
- Design costume and props and dress the set to create a sense of….abandonment, corruption, decay, threat…
Your creative intentions may depend upon your production roles. You will be working in pairs and will be required to adopt at least one production role from each of the three main stages of production:
Pre-production (planning):
- Screenwriter
- Storyboard artist
- Production designer (both)
Production (filming):
- Cinematographer (& Director)
- Sound recording (& Director)
Post production (editing):
- Vision editor
- Colour Grading / Effects
- Sound editor
- Foley sound artist
- Music composer
Task:
Define each of these role in terms of the tasks they will be required to undertake during that particular stage of production.
- Editor
- Director
- Cinematographer
- Sound Designer
- Screenwriter
Here is our work on the five production roles.
