GROUP IDEA SYNOPSIS

Synopsis for opening
Open with a man sitting in a corner, head in his hands covered in a hood. The man appears emotional as he throws objects from nearby over the room. He sits in the room as he thinks. As he thinks he has a flashback, seeing a man walking down a road and seeing a girl, their eyes meet and the problems begin. The film goes back to the man in the room he has various flashbacks which could link to the story which will follow, leaving an enigma for the audience.
Synopsis for rest of narrative
Later on the man is getting ready for a party with some of his friends, they talk about the girl he saw earlier that day anf he finds out from his friends that her boyfriend is a physco drug dealer.
 At the party the guy and girl begin to talk then they get together, the boyfriend bursts in on them and hit’s the guy then proceeds to chase him out the house where he catches him and they both fight. During the fight the guy picks up a metal pipe that’s laying on the ground and brutally attacks the drug dealer, killing him in the process.

THE EXCHANGE

In a group of 4 we were asked to create an “exchange exercise” where we would use our previous knowledge of filming and editing and learn new techniques and stylistics in order to create a better final piece . This project further increased knowledge of group work and also got us familiarised with the group we would be in for our final project.

Our brief was to create a minute long scene with a minimum of two character who exchanged an item. The scene wasn’t allowed dialogue but needed non diegetic  music over the top -in order to set the mood for the action. We needed around 8-12 shots to create this scene and we did ours in around that amount. In this exercise we used a wide variety of shot including, close ups long shots cut away shots and also shots through objects such as a fence, which creates effects which are similar to those which are used in classic noirs. 

In our piece we kept to the 180 degree line rule, so our piece made sense and kept continuity. Even though we kept to this rule our group had a small problem with continuity where the held object switched hands, we realised this as we edited and that shot was cut from our final piece.

All In all I would say our “exchange exercise” was very effective, it fit the brief very well and I am very pleased with the final outcome. 

If I could re-film this piece I would film a larger number of shots so we had plenty of shots to create our piece out of, I would also keep track of shot continuity throughout filming, which would have prevented the lack in continuity which we experienced in one of our shots when we came round to editing.