Preliminary Task
Before half term we were given an outline of what to do and include in our preliminary task. The task had to include someone opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character. It also had to demonstrate a match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule and we could choose wheatheror not it included any dialogue between the characters but our group decided to include dialogue as the filming lasted for 2 mins, therefore it would be hard not to include the characters interacting.
Before we could decide on a script, we recorded our ideas in a storyboard, making it easier to shoot as we new exactly what we were to film. After we completed the storyboard and had an exact idea on what out preliminary task would include, we chose where to shoot and what characters and props we were going to include, we then filmed our preliminary task ensure we included all the aspects.
When we had our first lesson after Half term we then edited our footage (in imovie) which allowed us to crop and edit any scenes we wanted/didnt want to include. We then evaluated our task which highlighted any faults with the task. From the evalution of our short 2 minute film, we noticed that we needed to obey the 180 degree rule and crop out any unnessary back ground props by using close-ups and medium close-ups, also we decided that for our final film opening we would use a tripod to prevent any shacking of the camera whislt filming. Over all we were happy with a lot of our footage and had clear ideas on what we would include when filming our final opening coursework to make it most affective.
We were also especially pleased with the outcome of our establishing shot and noticed what we would include next time.

In todays lessons we edited our preliminary filming task, and we created our synopsis for our final film, this gave us more creative and detailed ideas and an overall view of what we want our film opening to contain and portray to its audience. We recorded our ideas as a mind map allowing us to elaborate more on our ideas. we came up with ideas on where would film our opening and what props and characters we would need to include to make it include the criteria we were given for our film to include, allowing us to receive the best grades possible.

Institutional Context
As a group we chose to look into UK successful film studies such as Pinewood studios. After we researched and we each had a clear understanding of successful British film studios we put all of our findings into a detailed presentation. We chose to use Pinewood studios as they included films filmed there such as James Bond films, this was interesting to research and present in our presentation, we explained why we chose this studio and explained thoroughly in our presentation which we had to present to the other groups and Mr Cramb. Below are a few slides from the guide we produced on this company.

Today, our group started on our synopsis and listed some ideas that we each thought would be most affective to include in our opening, giving us a breif idea on what should be included and what our opening would eventually look like.

British film powerpoint

Analysis of results powerpoint from questionnaires