List Of Shots Used

Here is a list of the type of shots we used:

• Match on action. We thought this would be effective as the spectators would be in two situations at once. This makes the spectator think about both scenes and try and piece them together. It shows how real life is relevent as many situations happen all at once and this is how tension is created. It flicks between two different scenes to put the spectator in suspence.
• Close ups.This shows very little background, and concentrates on either a face, or a detail of mise en scene. This shot magnifies the object and shows the importance of things. The close-up takes us into the mind of a character. In reality, we only let people that we really trust get that close to our face e.g mothers, children and lovers, usually - so a close up of a face is a very intimate shot. This is effective as it is used to make the spectator feel extra comfortable or extremely uncomfortable about a character.
• Birds eye view. This shows a scene from directly overhead, a very unnatural and strange angle. Familiar objects viewed from this angle might seem totally unrecognisable at first. This shot does, however, put the audience in a godlike position, looking down on the action. People can be made to look insignificant, ant-like, part of a wider scheme of things.
• Hand held shots. It gives a jerky, ragged effect, totally at odds with the organised smoothness of a dolly shot, and is favoured by filmmakers looking for a gritty realism which involves the viewer very closely with a scene.
• We thought about using a dolly to move around our character whilst also moving upwards to get his whole body, but we filmed in the media studios and it was too small to fit the dolly in it, so we didnt use a dolly, we filmed hand-held, we thought this would be effective as the character is not still in the sequence so we thought the camera shouldnt be, it helps put the spectator into the characters position.