Preliminary Task: Location Planning

Establishing shot - the big office building on Trafalgar Road, Kettering (there is a possibility of filming from the car park)

Interior corridor & room shots - Keystone Youth Centre, 97 Rockingham Road, Kettering 

Preliminary Task: Filming Schedule

Preliminary Task: Shot List

Preliminary Task: Casting List

Agent: Temperamental, attached to his teammates and extremely loyal. Agent is distraught by the news of a failed mission - meaning one of his teammates has died. He will be played by Sam Thomson, who will be a great physical and emotional actor from what we have seen when working with him in Drama.

Bgent: Reserved, drinks to escape, and secretly emotional. Bgent has to inform Agent about the failed mission and death of their close teammate, then deal with Agent's lashing out. He will be played by Ashley Paddock, who is also in our Drama class and is skilled with morbid acting. 

Preliminary Task: Creating a Storyboard

For our preliminary task we were asked to create a short video including dialogue and some camera shots/angles/movements - while also sticking to the '12 Shot Challenge'. Unfortunately, our group had to go beyond 12 shots as we wanted our task to have excellent quality - so these extra shots were needed to help build tensions and truly show the aggressive atmosphere between the characters.

The scene we have taken from our mind map shows two agents (A and B) meeting, with B then informing A that a fellow agent has died on a failed mission. A is less than happy, to say the least. Below are the shots we have thought of;

Shot 1

Shot 2

Shot 3

Shot 4

Shot 5

Shot 6

Shot 7

Shot 8

Shot 9

Shot 10

Shot 11

Shot 12

Shot 13

Shot 14

Shot 15

Shot 16

Shot 17

Basic Media Shots and Angles

Camera Movements

Establishing shot:



Long shot:

Mid shot:



Close up:



Extreme close up:



Two shot:



Point of view shot:



Camera angles

Over the shoulder:



High angle:



Low angle:

Preliminary Task; First Ideas

Creating our mind map (with love).

To start the task we were asked to mind map our ideas as a group, then decide on a final idea to make our scenario; although our piece must include a character walking into a room, then proceeding to have a conversation with a second character already in that room. We had various ideas - such as a horror or teen romance theme - but decided to go down the route of secret agents and tragedy. Lighting, costume, set, and certain camera angles/shots/movements have all been written on our mind map too, so we're all quite confident with our idea!

Finished mind map!

Our final idea will be two agents having an upsetting conversation over how one of their fellow agents died on an important mission. Lots of camera shots/angles will be used in our piece, and we will try our best to create an uncomfortable atmosphere.

Foundation Portfolio : What Is It?

50% of your grade will be earned through your Foundation Portfolio. This consists of a preliminary task and a main task, the details of which can be found below.

The Preliminary Task is designed to illustrate the processes of pre-production, production and post-production that will be required, albeit in more detail, when you come to undertake the Main Task. The Preliminary Task is not marked but MUST be completed and submitted alongside the Main Task to the examiner. If it is not completed, marks are deducted from your Main Task.

The Main Task is marked out of 100. These marks are broken down as follows:

20 marks - Research into similar media products and planning of your own media product.
60 marks - Construction of your own media product including filiming and editing.
20 marks - Evaluation of your own media product.

All of your work must be posted to your blog as this will be accessed by the examiner in May of 2016.

For each of the criteria above, marks are available in 4 levels with level 4 being the highest. 

The progress thermometer below shows the key words for each level of the mark scheme.

This is what you have to do:

Preliminary Exercise

Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Main Task

The titles and opening of a new teen horror film, to last a maximum of two minutes.

All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both preliminary and main tasks must be completed as a group. Maximum four members to a group.

Basic Media Terminology

Camera Shots
-Close up: A close shot that normally shows an actor from the waist up.
-Extreme close up; A shot that signifies a certain object or facial expression. Adds more importance to what is in the focus when having the zoomed in shot.
-Long shot; A shot from far away, can show an actors full body.
-Extra long shot; A shot from very far away, mostly used to show a setting/world characters are in.

Camera Angles
Front view; View showing front of a character/ characters.
side view: profile Of a character. 
birdseye view: from above 
over the shoulder: self explanatory 

Camera Movements
tracking: following something 
 panning: gradual movement across point of focus 

180 Degree rule
All shots must be filmed from one side of the actors to maintain the realism.

OCR Guide To The 180 Degree Rule

OCR Guide To Basic Camera Angles

OCR Guide To Basic Camera Movements

OCR Basic Camera Shots Guide