Media Studies-Written Assignment(Camera Angles)

 

 

 

The story we are trying tell is a murderer chasing a student through the school. Most of the scene the student is running away from the murderer but by the end of the scene the murderer creeps up behind the student and kills him by hitting around the head with a rock, which is the murderers signature murder weapon.

 

We tried to use all of the camera shots/angles that we were given but some of the camera angles were hard to get in, as it didn’t go with scene that we were filming. The camera shots that we didn’t get was a tracking shot and a tilt shot and this were the shots that didn’t fit in with the scene we were doing.

 

The shot types and camera angles that we used gave the scene a bit of mystery because in each shot you didn’t see the murderers face and we did this as in most thrillers you won’t know who is the murderer is and so we decided that our film you wouldn’t know who the murderer is even though in the beginning you see the murderer kill someone. Also for the murderer we only used point of view, over the shoulder and close up but not at his face, which gave the murderer mystery and for the student we mostly used camera shots of the student running and hiding from the murderer which shows that the victim is scared and fighting for his life. I think most of our choices were successful but I think we could have improved by making the scene flow better

We didn’t always have steady camera shots but it was our first time filming so I think we did ok and you can see a bit of an improvement in our camera work nearer the end of the scene. I think we did use each shot appropriately as most of the shots were in frame and the camera shots/angles of the murderer was supposed to be like that. But at the beginning there was supposed to be 2 people running but we only got 1 person.

I think that our film was good for our first attempt of filming as we got good camera shots and angles and as the video progresses you can see the improvement in our use in the equipment. We mainly need to make the scene flow smoother instead of jumping from scene to scene and have a better story line.