So we had
several meetings to start off with meeting the director, Lance Phillips and
some of the script writing team to discuss ideas and place characters etc. I
was given the role of supporting cast and back up boom mic operator and back up
camera man. We only had a day of working of set which was plenty of time for a
ten minute film. We started at 10am and finished at 7pm. The first couple of
hours of filming I wasn’t needed for acting because I wasn’t in the opening
scene or boom mic operator because we were outside and the microphone would
pick up too much wind.
Two Shots.
However I did some of the camera work for
example I filmed most of the two shots, as you can see below, we used two shots
to show conversation (left) and also to show intimidation (right).
We also
filmed a two shot where the speaker is in the background, in this case the
middle, which creates focus on the speaker, as seen below, at the time of 0:49
in the film (left) or at 1:51 where the focus is on the victim’s friend, when
the she looks worried about the victim (right).
We can use
two shots in our film easily. In Hidden Consequences we used a crane for the
two shots the reason for this is because we needed to have the shot steady
otherwise we might miss the characters’ faces. However we can use a tripod
instead because it creates the same level of stability.
Close Ups.
The close
ups needed a steady hand for it because we couldn’t use the tripod because we
too close to the actors feet and we couldn’t zoom because the camera was in
free movement so therefore the camera man took over and used his steady hand.
We can use close ups with a tripod because we can make precautions with the
actors.
We can use
close ups to show emotion in our film like, I did for Hidden Consequences, for
the teacher (top right above) she looks quite serious and angry, because at
5:00 she is! She has found out what the bully has done. Close ups can be used
on objects to show that the object shows some form of significance for example
the phone (middle) is the bully’s.
Over Shoulder Shots.
The over
shoulder shots, used in Hidden Consequences, were used for conversation such as
in the bulling incident flashback at 7:10 (left) or used to show an actors’
actions such as in the post man delivery scene at 8:04 (right). Both of these
shots were used by a crane however we again create the same level of stability
by using a tripod.
We can use
over shoulder shots to also show an objects’ actions, such as a building being
demolished, as well which can be used in our film if we need to. These shots can
be implemented easily into our film because over shoulder shots are very easy
to re-create because it doesn’t require that much positioning of the camera.
Long shots.
We also a
few long shots of a place related to a school such as a main entrance (as seen
below). This can be used for multiple effects such as to pass
time, fade to black and to change setting. In Hidden Consequences we used a
wide shot of the school front entrance to and faded to black to show that the
day has ended and the film is moving forward in time.
We can
easily use these types of shots for the same effects and others such as fade in
from black, non-continuity cross cut etc. in our own film this will show that
we can create a scene with only one shot.
What we
can use from this film in our own?
We can
defiantly use most if not all of these shots that were used to create tension
among our audience, show character facial expression, reveal a key part to the
plot etc. We can also use school sites such as this school used, Victory Academy,
if we can’t travel as far as we intend to since this school is fairly close to
ours. We can also use the cuts used to create a sense of time movement I.e.
Midday to Midnight, Morning to Afternoon etc. The last thing we can use is the
use of filters used in this film for example the flashback scene has a blue
filter imported to it to create a sense that the characters don’t remember
everything that happened I.e. what they were wearing, what hallway they were in
etc.
