Planning and CCR- Preliminary Task One (The Interview)

The Planning Process of Preliminary Task 1

Assignment: To create a sequence where a character opens a door, walks through a room (without crossing the line), and exchanges two sentences of dialogue with another character.

Must include: -180 degree rule
                       - Match on action 
                       - Shot reverse shot


Our purpose of this film was to create an enticing, awkward job interview where the interviewee was a sloppy, careless teenage boy, and the interviewer was the manager of an upper class company. We constructed a STORY BOARD to illustrate how we would achieve this.  However, we had to cross out the first 3 boxes as we didn't think they would be useful or effective in creating what we needed. By using mid close ups and close ups on the actors and their reactions to each other, we tried to get across to the audience the disprovals of the interviewer and the total disrespectfulness of the interviewee. For example, by using a close up on Jane's face after she was rudely interrupted by Daniel shows us her disapproval and disgust in his behavior. 

We made a SCRIPT and went through each of the lines that we created for the actors to make sure that each action and each word they said would sound and look like something the actual people would do in a real life situation. We kept the majority of Daniel Parker's (played by Jesse Toderan) lines short and blunt, to get across his abrupt and sharp character, whereas Jane Smith's (played by India Ironside) lines were more structured and descriptive because she is well educated and in a professional occupation. The props we used were a glass of water; for Daniel's rude interruption, a hotdog; to empashize is sloppiness when he left the room, and glasses for  Jane as part of her costume to make her appear classically "smarter" and professional. Jane's costume included our school's (City Impact Church School) blouse, vest, tie, and skirt; whereas Daniel wore his own personal hoodie, track pants, and cap, with white Vans impersonation shoes which I personally purchased from The Warehouse. 

The SHOT LIST we created was used to keep us working towards time and to stick to schedule, showed how long approximately each shot should be, having the more significant shots be longer than the others; for example, when Miss Jane questions Daniel's motive for applying for the job, it is longer than his reply. This is to show that in her shot, she is talking about the investment and dedication that this job takes, where then she is rudely cut off but his silent reply of money. The shot also included what props we needed, such as the glass or the hotdog, in bold, to clearly show my partner Alexis and myself when they were needed.