As part of our preliminary task we had to create a short clip of someone entering a room, walking to a chair and sitting down. For our piece we decided to create a distressed doctor who has just lost a patient. The idea is for the doctor to just walk from her desk, sit down at the table next to her and get lost in her thoughts about the loss of her patient. The scene is set in a doctor's office aka one of out teacher's staff room's and the doctor played by one of the members in our Media class.
The software we used to edit the final cuts of the pre-lim task was Sony Vegas Pro 12. As this was the first time using this software, it increased our knowledge on the programme and how it is quite similar to Adobe Premier Pro which we'll be using for our main task.
Script for Voice-overs
Evaluation
For our preliminary task we decided to do a short clip which featured a mentally unstable doctor battling with his
thoughts after blaming herself for the death of her patient. The clip only contained a minor amount of dialogue which we presented as voice-overs in the doctor's mind. We used a variation of shots in our preliminary task in which we researched from other TV series we thought would relate; series such as Sherlock, Broadchurch, The Wrong Mans etc.
The camera angle which signified tension was when the camera slowly zoomed in on the character of the doctor as voices
manifested in her mind, this is not seen in many shows of this genre but we
believed it created a climactic build for when the next character entered the
shot and contributed to the persona of the character of mentally stressed she was.We also used point of view (POV) shot which again emphasised the instability and agitation of the
character. However, after watching the shot we realised that it caused us to lose continuity yet made the shot look effective. Other conventional shots we used were, the shot-reverse shot
through which was through our dialogue and the 180 degree shot in order to create a sense of conversation presence between 2 people during the scene.
Personally, I think that we challenged the conventions of media and the typical stereotypes that usually represent an ill doctor or a 'male' doctor. By doing this we
challenged how a typical doctor would be perceived by created a female doctor and also how they can be just as vulnerable as the rest of society therefore going against the
generic social conventions of media and the perceptions found in a regular TV drama/soap.
Media institutions that I would distribute this to would be the BBC or ITV. This is due to the fact they are well known for creating dramas like and are loved by a wider age demographic which we gathered from our consumer research. Channels/Institutions such a E4 are mainly used for entertainment such as sit-coms which this piece wouldn't be.
