Preliminary Task
Between The Lines. Episode 7 – The White Stuff
For our preliminary task we decided to focus on the crime genre out of the three possibilities. We chose the crime genre as we thought it would work most effectively and we had the resources to make this genre work. Our plot was based on a police interview where the suspect had been arrested for having a large amount of drugs in his house. The drugs were found after a police search. We decided to involve two police officers as we thought we could show the “good cop, bad cop” convention that are found in many televised crime programmes. Three main skills had to be performed when filming our preliminary task. We had to show a character opening a door, show shot reverse shot and match on action. Shot reverse shot is a technique that often shows a conversation between two people. The first character is shown looking at the other character who is often off-screen and then the second character is shown looking back at the first character. The viewer gathers the fact that they are looking at each other so they must be talking to each other. Match on action occurs when action starts in one shot and continues through to the second shot. An example of this could be when someone is filmed entering a door in the first shot from outside and the second shot sees the character coming through the door from the inside. Below I have included our storyboard and a link to our preliminary task.
