Preliminary Task - Shooting Maps

This is a shooting map of our preliminary task, our preliminary task follows one lad (Actor 1) on his journey to find a suitible comic book to read in his spare time, his quest leads him to the library were another boy (Actor 2) is indulging in a rather cool looking comic, however the only one left for Actor 1 is "bunty for girls", unhappy with this comic Actor 1 asks Actor 2 if he is willing to trade however Actor 2 is happy with the comic he has chosen... In the end however Actor 2 is so annoyed by the presence of Actor 1 that he leaves the room, leaving Actor 1 with the comic book he wanted all along.

In this scene we can see Actor 1 coming up the stairs and around the coridoor to the doors of the library. The camera uses a panning shot to follow his progress.

In this scene we can see that Actor 1 comes throught he door into the library to sit at the table. After a brief discussion with Actor 2 about comic books Actor 2 leaves the room. The camera usus a panning shot to view Actor 1 to the table and uses one continual shot to follow the coversation between Actor 1 and 2 with close ups at specific points to show particular facial expression and to draw focus on specific objects that the Actors are using.

It was important for us to mak these shooting maps so that we knew exactly what we were doing when we filmed our preliminary task, without it it would have taken us far longer and the finished production would have been alot less smooth.

In out production we had to keep in mind the "180 Degree Rule" which means that when filming the two Actors talking we couldnt move the camera more than 180 degrees oposite to were the discussion was taking place, this is because if we did it become confusing and disorientating for the viewer because it would appear that the Actors have switched places and will break the flow of the scene.