Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Camera angles

With the many angle shots taken, we have tried to change the perspective of each and every shot so that we can get a better shot selection for our film trailer.

Behind the shoulder shot
Here we have Enzo sitting whilst the camera was placed behind his shoulders. We aim to get the initial shot selection of Nathan's feelings after he is outdone by Pete Crowley with his product. Nathan will act frustracted within the scene.
Panning/following track shot of Pete Crowley
The shot was devised by me, the plan was to make Pete seem suspicious. All of his following movements were followed to show to the audience what he was clearly doing (Hacking the system on the computer)

Enzo Costa panning/tracking shot
The panning was exclusively produced to follow Enzo's movement upon the swivell of the office chair. Tracking the shot was extremly difficult to follow through, instead, we decided that the camera would be placed onto the chair and with that movement extension, we would move the office chair  as well to capture Enzo.

Common shots and cut backs
The cut backs shall be intersected inbetween within the second half of the trailer (mostly the violent scenes). This creates a surreal feeling of realism, I expect the audience to feel as if they were in the trailer (such and such with 3D realism).
Various swivel punching sections
With Eddie Goodman in the scene, the violence was depicted as him ontop of another person whilst he would be punching from right to left continuosly, the camera was turned 90 - 120 degrees to the left at every point that Eddie finishes punching at the victim(cameraman).

The catch (pursue scene)
With Enzo chasing Pete till the very end of the clip, we needed a replica of an birds eye view of the situation. Though, without the tools to do show (due to our low budget) Most appropriately, we manage to rise to the top of the building and film from that standpoint. The pan was developed along the way to track the running as we aimed the camera distance to be quite far. Although a mid shot of the follow through may be more eye-catching, the camera could not grasp the resolution as zooming in made the clip blurry.

Chair Swing Scene
In actual fact, we planned to flicker on and off the lights to add that dramatic bit of flavour in however, the plan backfired as the time for the lights to switch back on took too long to come back on and off.

The scene still carried on as we planned for the vicious scene of "backstabbing"
The Chair shot was aimed at Hao Zheng as we would cut away from the scene afterwards.


Shoving Eddie Goodman into the fence
With plenty of fences to work with (due to our location;School) we figured that we could use this to our advantage as we could show some abuse withing the storyline.

We directed our film crew behind the fence so that we could look at both Eddie G and Enzo Costa's perspective. The fence provided a bit of flexibility as Eddie G was able to swing backwards and forwards a bit to enhance that flow.

Kidnap/abduction
The camera angle was slanted as we did not intend to do such thing at all, although it was entirely coincidental, the scene still looked great to use. (Front seat -> Back seat Mid shot)
Enzo's kidnapping upon a victim happens here as he starts to deal a proposal on the phone for the return of the victim.

The kick and Hao Zheng's confrontation
With one of our cameramen on the floor (upright sitting postion) we have imitated the reaction of the kick by getting the camera man to lean backwards at a fast rate, cushions were provided so that the cameraman would not injure himself. We wanted  give this scene a unique in the end, and thus we prepared for Hao Zheng's confrontation as he would enter from behind the camera man. From the camera's perspective, we ended the clip with Hao Zheng in a upside down peception.












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