Continuing development and planning of Preliminary Task

Props

Photographs: Before Thursdays double lesson (when we start filming) our group needed to prepare some of the props we need for certain shots within the film, one of these props being a few photographs that we planned to use for the very beginning shot of our preliminary task. On Wednesday morning, Me, Rachel and Jay planned to work on taking some photographs for the film. Rachel bought minor props to make the photos more realistic as I had to take photos of them two 'being captured and tortured/killed' and these photos had to look believable and effective. These photos were taken on Rachel's digital camera and because we didn't have much time to create perfect photos so Rachel edited the photographs using an online photo shopper called 'Picnik'.

We took the pictures in a lightly lit classroom where natural sunlight was coming through, this was done purposefully as it looks more effective and as if they are hurt and trapped somewhere. Instead of using fake blood etc Rachel used effects on 'Picnik' to look as though they had been hurt/tortured. Rachel showed me the picture after it was first edited (second picture) and I thought that the blood and bruise effect looked great and very realistic whereas I thought that the lighting/colour of the picture could be more effective so we decided the change the colour to black and white (third picture) to make it look less professional and realistic.