Audiovisual Design

Task - create a 30-60 sec film using one shot

As a group we decided to pick the ganster genre for the theme of our film. We then researched the genre to create a storyline. We looked at crime and criminal organisations to get a better understand of they're activities.
"Criminal organizations keep illegal actions secret, and members communicate by word of mouth, therefore police will never be able to trace phone calls or letters. Many organized crime operations have legal fronts, such as licensed gambling, building construction, and trash hauling, or which operate in parallel with and provide cover for drug trafficking, money laundering, prostitution, extortion, murder for hire, hijacking, fraud, and insider trading. Other criminal operations engage in human trafficking, political corruption, black marketeering, political violence, racist and religiously motivated violence, terrorism, abduction, prison break and crimes against humanity."
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime

We then chose to include kidnapping and human trafficking. We create a storyline that would have a instanst impact while keeping to the theme. I found a great location for the shoot and got the actors for the characters for the film.
























The location was dark and quite so it was place to shoot without getting too many interuptions. We had planned to shoot the film late in the evening so that there was less noise and light. The shoot had taken about 30mins to set up and about an hour to finish. We did test shots and experimented with the focus to gain to best shot.