Preliminary Task: The Chase

  For our preliminary task our group created a chase scene for an opening to a film. Before filming we drew out a simple story bored to plan the premises of the story and plan the shots and position of the camera. We decided to use the underpass because it was close to school and the steep slope, graffiti and tunnel created a dramatic mise en scene.
  We took close up shots of just the legs of Harry and Adam running past, we tried to pile leaves in the way to make the running more dramatic. The close up of the two running accross doesnt reveal who they, drawing the audience in to learn more.
  Next we had a shot from the balcony of the underpass to film a tracking shot so that we see the two fully for the first time. Adam is bigger than Harry and the title is called The Chase so the audience may have guessed that Harry is in danger (we could have dressed more appropriately to emphasise this).  
  It Cuts to another tracking shot from the balcony from a different position. From here we see that they run into the tunnel, only one way to go for Harry.
  A cut to the two running through the tunnel (we considered doing this in slow motion for dramatic tension. You can see from our deleted scenes that we tried simply running slowly but that didnt work and we didn't know how to create a slow motion effect). It then cuts to me waiting around the corner. The audience knows that Harry cannot escape, this creates dramatic irony. I grab him and it cuts to a medium shot of us.