Monday, 24 October 2011

Shots used for our preliminary task.

In the short clip me, Jack and Toni created we tried to include as many different shots as possible which would make it more effective. The different shots we used were;


In this shot we were trying to get the idea of it being in the eye of a CCTV camera. We added an effect in which it looked like when looking at a recording and a non-digetic sound to make it sound like a recording. We had the camera at a high angle so it could show the whole corridor and it looked like where a CCTV camera would be put up. Jack did have trouble trying to keep the camera still at this point, and you can tell as the camera shakes but overall, I think the shot was effective and worked well in our film.
Also, in this scene, we used a non-digetic sound of a voice over to get Toni to go somewhere. This is why she looks in the corner, as we thought that's where the speaker would be.



All through these scenes we have non-digetic sounds in which would add to the effect and suspense as you don't know why she's being called to see someone.




The next shot we used was the pan. We got our character (Toni) to walk down corridors and stairs as the camera followed her. This was a very difficult shot to film as the camera was very stiff to move and was very jumpy when we watched it back. Also, we needed two people on the camera as when she walks up to the door it's hard to tell where the camera would be facing as on one try the camera just went down to her feet. In the editing process we used an effect to make the panning more smoother, but this cut some of the picture as when Toni walks down the corridor her head it cut off. It was still a good shot to use and still effective, but if we use it again we'd have to find a more simple way to make the camera more steady.



This shot was a close up of the door and Toni knocking. Just before we came to the knocking we cut off the non-digetic music and just added the knocking which was quite effective in watching it back. 

After this we used a shot of Toni walking through the door. Looking back we did notice a problem. As we changed rooms half way through we forget to put the sign on the other door which we didn't notice until editing.

Also looking back, we thought the camera was in the wrong place and it could class as breaking the 180' rule. Now we've noticed all these problems, when filming again we will have to make sure we don't make silly mistakes again. 

This was our first time filming and we used different transitions and effects so something was bound to go wrong.


Our final shot was the dialogue in the room between me, and Toni. The way the camera was facing showed us both, so could be classed as a two shot. As the end we used a transition to fade to black when then lead to the credits at the end.

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