Preliminary task

           

It will be filmed in the classroom. The police officer is going to be interrogating the suspect as he has committed a crime however he refuses to tell. The police officer would be asking the suspect many questions about his recent whereabouts. He would also try and threaten him into saying something that could be used to find out what crime he has actually committed. The 180 degree rule will be used for this 30 second piece. This rule is where the camera can move anywhere within the half circle but it would stray beyond the 180 degrees. Otherwise cut shots between talking characters would have them facing the same direction.

The Interrogation

By Mitchell Brown, Jack Rust and Athar Azim

Door swings wide open, handcuffed man stumbles in and falls to the ground followed by an investigator who picks him up and sits him in the chair.

Investigator:

Are you still here Johnson? How many times do we have to go over this?

They are locked in eye contact.

Johnson:

I don’t know, I just love seeing you so much.

Investigator:

You think you’re funny don’t you?

Johnson:

I’ve been told so. You don’t think I am? You don’t like my jokes?

Investigator:

I don’t like you, you’re a joke. You think this is all fun and games?

Johnson:

Everything is a game officer, don’t you..

Officer cuts him off.

Investigator:

[Officer is irate] Well were done playing! You better start talking Johnson.

Johnson:

I am talking officer, in fact that’s all I’ve done since you brought me here?

Investigator:

Look I know you don’t want to be here and trust me I don’t want to be here with you, so I’m going to cut to the chase. Tell me what happened that night?

Johnson:

I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Investigator:

Don’t lie to me Johnson!

Johnson:

[Hint of sarcasm in his tone.] Okay officer I’m sorry will you tell me what night you are talking about?

Investigator:

Stop playing dumb!

Johnson stares at the investigator in silence and smiles.

Investigator:

I thought you would've learned. Wait here [Moves to the door swiftly] … we’re going to need some extra persuasion.

[Footsteps can be heard in the hallway through the slightly open door, camera pans to Johnson who is still at the table. After a moment of silence he smirks]

When our group was filming, I was acting as the character, Johnson, who was being interrogated by the officer. I was acting with Jack who was the interrogator as Mitchell was filming the whole scene. We met the 180 degree rule as we made sure that Mitchell does not exceed the 180 degree rule through an imaginary line of the door and desk line. Through the editing of match on action, we filmed when me and Jack talk twice, once from my perspective and the other from Jack's. This way whenever jack was talking, it would show his face and whenever I was talking, it would switch to mines. What went well in our groups was that the script was ready and to be performed and we were on target to achieve in filming it in the time given. In our groups planning, our acting could have been better as we didn't learn the lines off by heart. Although, after we adjusted our script we stuck to it and went well. Also the camera work went very well through which Mitchell had done and filmed different shots of when entering the scene. Something that could've gone better with the camera work is that some of the shots of entering the scene were a bit blurry and that if we knew, we could've have re shot those scenes. The editing went well as we were able to put together shots effectively to make a good 30 second piece. What could've gone better is the amount of non blurred shots we had, although we were able to work round it and have a great 30 second edited piece.