The Exchange preparation

As part of our course we were asked to do a preliminary exercise.
Our brief was to create a short 1-2minute clip showing an exchange with no dialog just music.

Before we shot this we were asked to do a rough synopsis and treatment as individuals and then collate the ideas as a group and pick out the best elements.

Here is my synopsis and Treatment-

Synopsis
A woman walks across a courtyard carrying a briefcase, to a man standing by the trees.
She puts the case on the floor and lights a cigarette.
He smiles at her looks around then reaches into his inside coat pocket and pulls out and envelope, he passes it to her, then picks up the briefcase and leaves. She stubs out her cigarette, puts the envelope in her breast pocket and walks off.

Treatment
The woman is a femme fatale type character that is commonly associated with film noir.
The weather will hopefully be wet or damp and the sky will be grey creating a unpleasant atmosphere.
The backing music will be eerie medium paced and shifty.

Before going out to shoot, i had to fill out paperwork to evaluate different aspects of my shoot, eg safety.

These are what i had to fill in-
* A location finders checklist - answering questions about the location (e.g. suitability and availability)
* A 10 shot storyboard - this is to help us get the shots we visualized in our heads onto film.
* A risk evaluation sheet - examining the potential hazards of filming in our chosen location such as noise, distraction and disruption from the public.
* A risk reduction sheet - actions we would take to reduce the risks that we found on the risk evaluation sheet.
* A call sheet - containing all the vital information needed for our shoot to run smoothly (e.g. equiptment needed, directions to our location and group member's phone numbers)
* A camera logging sheet* - used whilst editing the film to establish how long each shot is and what each shot contained for easy reference if need to find the shot on the tape again.