Sunday, 20 January 2013

Pre-production: Sketching visual scenes

This is something that I sketched out not basing it entirely upon the specific protagonist (Rashmi) but just showing how one of the shots are going to be taken place. For example, this is the scene were she comes out of the building (college) and there occurs a mid-shot of the girl as we want to show the facial expressions and body-language very closely. I have analyse two aspects; two bags, as these two are the only props needed for the specific scene. The image we are trying to present to the audience is how she's on a 'mission' seeking out to find a resolution type, and this is the point where the audience will be assuming diverse questions. What I feel is effective is as you can see I drew some windows/door this is to show some of the building but we want to show the reflection of what the protagonist is seeing, this is because it will allow the audience to be in the character's point of view and therefore set the scene in a whole.


In this image I have sketched out a draft of a close-up of when the girl looks in her pocket to seek for her phone, this is a clever shot as this is our first close-up shot in the whole of our 2-minute opening clip. The audience can see the use of her body-language and in particular the costume she's wearing how that connotes the character in a whole for her. And this is one of the shots we want to do as this allows the audience to be in the protagonists point of view because it's like the audience are looking for the phone too. Underneath this I drew a sketch of her face the close-up after the previous shot is done. This is because I wanted to show the group how it'd look effective if we proceeded with this, also the facial-expressions on her face is very effective looking down towards what she is finding.

After and before scenarios are sketched by me too showing the cases of when the protagonist is in the building their is a tracking shot from behind, but this is effective as their is going to be use of low-key lighting as depicted on the picture. We want to black everything out so all the audiences are entitled to view is the scenery on the 'before' image, as this allows the audience to be in the character's point of view and aid them into engage towards the short clip. The binary opposition here is between the character inside and the world outside are as there are bright colours outside and very dark inside this could perhaps connote the psychographics which are 'strugglers'. In the 'after' image it shows of when she's out and due to her facial-expressions the audience will perhaps be able to realise that she is an explorer and is ready to go and search, even though they are not aware of the storyline this would probably give them a huge insight cleverly. Also when this shot takes place we will be using key-lighting as it is not only the brightest but also highly influential. For this we will be using a mid-shot as the audience are able to identify the character's body-language and facial-expressions closely. However, you can see the contrast in the 'before' image as there consists of a long-shot from behind showing full body language as audience will be viewing how she's standing etc.


This is just an extreme-close up of an eye I did as we want to see how it will visually look when we do start filming, and we think this is very effective as it will engage with the audience and is a good way in using camera angles also keeping the audience on the edge of there seats.

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