Prelim Stills

Prelim Stills

Our opening shot was a close up of Harrys feet. we started by only showing his feet to create a sense of mytery. To keep the continuity we had to make sure harry was walking at the same pace and continuing from the same foot in each shot.

We then moved to a mid shot of Harry walking down the corridor towards the camera. For this shot we had to make sue Harry had continued from the previous shot on the same foot and that he was walking in a straight line.

We used a Dutch angle shot from the behind to make Harry look intimidated and vulnerable.

To take this shot we had to place the camera on top of the block of lockers, the lockers also helped to create a frame of straight and sharp lines.

The first time Felix appears in our prelim, is in a mid-shot from behind. Felix’s face isn’t properly shown until almost the end of the film.  By not showing Felix’s face in the frame we created quite a mysterious theme. We faded the end of this shot into black in between this and the next shot.

We used an upward pan to show the audience more of Felix, but not the whole of him. This is effective because it made Felix appear to be more threatening and dominant. There is also a mysterious theme running through the video as Felix’s face still hasn’t been shown.

This is the sequence of the victim (Harry) opening the door. We made sure the continuity was well matched.  We filmed a few seconds of the victim walking down the corridor towards the door, then a few seconds of a close up of the victim’s hand opening the door. We matched the continuity of the door being opened in the close up shot to the mid shot of the victim walking into the room from the other side of the door.

 

There was a slight error with the over the shoulder shot because Harry and Felix have been filmed on the same shoulder. Luckily Harry was standing up and Felix was sitting down so the audience is still able to tell the difference between the characters.

The final shot we used was a two shot of the victim and the killer. This shot was effective because it showed the audience both of the characters and the general location/ area of the room. In this two shot we also played non-diegetic sound of a gunshot. As we are not allowed to use real guns in our media videos we used a banana as a substitute.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Throughout our prelim we had music as non-diegetic sound playing. The song we used has quite a strong beat and fitted the shooting scene very well. We edited in our titles at the end of the video, keeping with a red and white split theme for each name and number.      

Our Prelim video evaluation.

We were set the task to make a short video to show our understanding, and to practice, using different shot types.

We started our video using a close up on Felix’s feet as he was walking. We wanted to create a sense of tension so we tried not to include Felix and Harrys faces in the frames. Our prelim video is about a man walking into a room and being shot. We tried to show a clear difference in character by using lighting and mise-en-scene as well. For example Felix (the murderer) is sitting in the darker corner of the room and harry (the victim) is stood in the light. Although Felix was sitting down we still managed to create an intimidating OSS.

We managed to keep the continuity throughout our prelim. For example we had to re-shoot the walking down the corridor shot because one of the guys had different shoes on or their walk was on the wrong foot. We Filmed out prelim in quite a dark room to create a Mysterious theme, we achieved this because the killer (Felix Rouch) did not show his face much, and when he did it was very shadowed implying that he is the “bad guy".