Prelim task - planning

Task Title- A Day In The Life Of Tilly.

We were given a prelim task, of which was to create a 1 minute long short film and the Title was A Day In The Life Of...
The kinds of things in which me and my partner needed to think about were;
Who or what it going to be about?
Where we would film?
When we would film?
Would we have a script?
What equipment we would use?

(We liked the letter W evidently)

After thinking of these things we came to the conclusion that we would base 'A day in the life of' on my partners dog Tilly, rather than usual what the obvious would be; a human being, we wanted to be a little be different and be creative with our filming. Also both me and my partner have a huge love for dogs therefore we made an easy agreement on the choice and were excited to get started. Moreover we were aware that evidently the dog would be the main focus in our short film although h you usually need at least 3 characters within the film either create conflict or to show a type of relationship between two or more people. Therefore my partner and her mother briefly appeared in the short film as they are the two people in which are closest to Tilly and of course if was the day in the life of Tilly after all. We also decided that we would film Till mainly in 2/3 locations; these being at home in her usual environment, in the park on her daily walk and on the way back from her walk. Due to the fact that Tilly is a dog evidently we could not film her on school property therefore the only place to film was out of school hours. Also we were of course unable to use any school equipment for this as we were filming out of school we used our own Camera/I Phone and luckily we knew a friend in which had a tripod for us to borrow briefly, although most of our camera angles were rather low down therefore we preferred to just hold the camera hands free in order to really get the shots that we wanted. All of this we were willing and happy to do.

Furthermore once the characters, location and timing were sorted we needed to think about creating a storyboard / script as due to the fact the I am a theatre studies student and have a passion for comedy we decided that I would do a voice over as the Scottish voice of Tilly and make it rather humorous, although the scipt in fact comes later on. I felt that the fact that both me and my partner took part in the film itself as well as producing it, conveys that we are both hands on and are not afraid to take a lead role in the filming process. First of all we made a storyboard; in which began with Tilly waking up at home, having breakfast and then going on her walk. She would then go on her walk and as she made her way home with her owner she came across an alteration with a cat, which we thought we could make quite comical as cats and dogs usually dont get along. She then returned home, had her dinner and lastly had some quality time with 'Sylvia' my partner in the living area.

Although sound comes under the editing process of film making we still thought that we would have a think about whether we wanted to have music perhaps at a low volume in the background of our film as well as my voice over; being the main sound for the audience to hear. Overall we decided that we would have a piece of upbeat music just so that the audience would be aware that it is a comical/happy film therefore not to expect a fright at all within the film.

The planning for our preliminary task allowed us to have a structured schedule for the making of the film (particularly because we were filming out of school) and also helped us to keep our focus on the storyline and not get side tracked. I will most definitely be planning for my final task in film making to ensure the best result.