Preliminary Task Plan - Kenza and Luna - Update

1. Kenza and Luna
Preliminary Task
We must create a short video
{around 2 minutes} containing
the skills and technical codes
that we have learnt. The video
should aim to display both our
filming and editing skills.

2. Technical codes to include:
❖ 180 degree rule
❖ Action codes
❖ Consideration of framing
❖ Consideration of lighting
❖ Consideration of mice-en-scene
❖ Conversation
❖ Costumes/Gestures/Expressi
ons
❖ Enigma codes
❖ Graphic match
❖ Match on action
❖ Parallel editing
❖ Range of shot types
❖ Range of angles
❖ Setting
❖ Shot reverse shot
❖ Tracking/panning

3. Planning of plot
❖ Who are the characters?
Friends, two girls
One of them was on the way to the other’s house but she get
lost.
At the phone box near the station
❖ Why are they meeting
❖ Where are they meeting?
❖ What will they talk about?
They will talk over the phone, giving directions and planning where to meet
❖ Plan setting:
Forest/At the phone box near the station
❖ Plan costume:
The one who gets lost: Dress + Heels as she will be running in the forest, her outfit will serve as an enigma code
Friend of lost person: Dress + flats - More causally dressed - The audience should be able to identify the girl
who gets lost as the main character

4. Settings
Hampstead Heath:
❖ Along the forest path
❖ In the brush
❖ Out of the brush, into the clearing
Chalk Farm:
❖ Phone box (Outside of chalk farm station)
❖ Outside Haverstock
❖ Along Chalk Farm Road

5. Costume
Girl who gets lost:
❖ Dress: Party dress - An enigma code as to why she is wearing a dress in a forest
❖ Shoes: Heels - Denotes impracticality and is an enigma code
❖ Bag: None - Isolates her from her phone and any other sources that may have be
useful in her predicament.
❖ Jewellery: None/Unmatching - Connotes that she is frequently unprepared
Friend of Girl:
❖ Dress: Simple & Coordinated - Connotes that her life is less flamboyant
❖ Shoes: Flats - Practical and convenient, contrasts the main girl
❖ Bag: Small bag - Practical and convenient, contrasts the main girl
❖ Jewellery: Simple and kept to a minimum

6. What will the audience see/hear
• Long shot pan of forest
• Calm, low pitched music, piano in minor key
• CU on heels walking through forest - rustling of leaves
• Low MS from behind
• Music crescendos
• ELS Pan of her walking through forest
• Forest shot from behind
• Pace of music increases
• Mid shot from front
• CU of face
• MS pan of her walking into forest clearing
• ECU on eyes
• ELS walking - time lapsed
• Walking towards phone box
• CU dial
• CU friends phone ringing
• Boom to face “Hello?” etc.
• Cut between characters
• Girl hangs up
• CU friend walking
• LS friend walking
• ELS friend walking - time lapsed
• LS them meeting
Match
on
{ action
Parallel
editing
{ Graphic
match
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7. Phone conversation
• Boom to face
• Friend: “Hello”
• Cut to girl “Hi, it’s me…”
• Sound bridge - fade to friend “…I got lost in the forest on the way to party”
• Friend: “Wait calm down, where are you now?”
• Girl: “I’m in the phone box near the station”
• Friend: “What can you see”
• Girl: “Umm.. theres shops.. and a post office!”
• Friend: “Great, i think i know where you are. Stay right there, i’ll meet you there”
• Girl: ”Alright, thanks. Please hurry.”