Monday, 2 March 2009

Cinematography

We used many different shot types to give the each shot what it needed to give the audience the feeling we wanted to. So for example, one Micheal is in the garden and first speaks we have a low angle shot of him, to show the audience he is in power as he is about to stab Wayne.
We had to re-film a few shots, especially the violence seen, this was because as it is action packed and violent, we decided we needed to shoot it again a few times because we needed shot reaction shots, high angle shots, sticking also to the 180 degree rule, as watching the first shots of the stabbing seen we needed to give it more of a feel, rather than just one long continuous over the shoulder shot. Using more types of shots we created a much better product, adding more shots made our product more dynamic.
We used shot reaction shots in the violence seen to help show the characters reactions to each other and we stuck to the 180 degree rule. We also used a high angle shot on Wayne as he comes out the door to show the audience at that point he is the one in power, in control of the situation, but as he walks towards Micheal, Micheal gains the power of the situation as he has the knife and then it goes to a two shot two connote to the audience that they are now on the same leel, this is also a good shot to show conversation and it captured the stabbing action.

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