If you watch the clip above of mine and Rosa's preliminary match cut exercise you will find that the camera sometimes moved unexpectedly, such things are unprofessional and may be down to the fact that we were still new with using the cameras and the preliminary tasks were acting as lessons as well as helping us improve our shots. I feel like the match cut exercise did not reach its full potential, as you may recognise lots of various shots could have been included, for e.g. when he opens the door, a close up of the handle would have looked great here. The final shot has him walking out of the frame, therefore we only have the door in the picture, shots such as this come to very least use, and a vital thing that we learnt is that useless shots should not be included unless they convey and hold a meaning.
Immediately in the clip below you will see several shots being used compared to the preliminary task, each shot holds a meaning such as the panning shot down of the house establishes the setting (suburban) and also the point of view shot of me behind the door glass, suggest my mysterious and suspicious character. I contrast to my match cut lots of shots are used. The point of view used from my perspective shows that Sarah is the prey.
The shot above was one of our establishing shots in our final project. We had to show the audience we were in a quiet suburban setting. This shot emphasizes how alone, small and helpless Sarah is in the opening as the shot seems quiet and empty of any passers by. In our prelimery match cut excercise our establishing shot was not so strong. It did its job and set the scene however it didn't elaborate on the setting or suggest anything about it. We had to make sure our final project did this as their was no dialogue to tell the audience about the setting.
The over the shoulder shot used is very uncomfortable for the audience to watch as more of the classroom is in the frame than the actual character, the audience will not enjoy watching this. The character is holding her mouth making speech very unclear, such things cannot be apparent in our film as it will not be professional. I also feel the shots move to quick, shot reverse shots of their faces would have been more successful here.
When filming our final project we made sure that we didnt have shots of mostly empty space like this. In some circumstances we shot a character and their head was cut off, or it focused on a certain part of the body. This was because we wanted to keep the characters anonymous, leaving the audience asking questions and wanting to watch more. One of the shots that we used the camera to focus on the body was the shot of Sarah unzipping her top. We had to create a sense of initamcy in the opening without dialogue as it was vital for our storyline and this shot did this.
In comparison, to show the significance of the drink we use various shots of it. Pouring it, drinking it etc. Slow motion is used to highlight it importance, and close ups and point of views establish this. We improved in using shots that will have a greater effect such as the point of view shots making it seem like i am watching her, because she is the prey.
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