Analysis of George's Past Experiences (Part 2)

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.