A2 Production Experiment Shots

In the next 2 weeks I plan to spend an hour or more at a particular location just experimenting with a few shots so I can have an idea of how i might want a scene in the film to look. My production doesnt go to crazy with locations, infact they're quite basic. So far I only need a living room (it will technically be a flat but I only really need a living room with a TV) and a fairly busy urban area, just a town will do. There will be other locations but I will be more clear with those as I have more ideas for the film. I might possibly need a few houses, a work-place and more urban areas. For now I think I will only be trying a few shots of my main character walking from one house to the other through the town. I want to be able to perfect filming a character through a town but being able to show which person is the main character. I also want to be able to see how I can that the character is troubled, almost out of place.

I will try this this weekend, come back with a simple range of shots and upload them. I shall report back then with those shots and hopefully i'll have more of an idea how I want the scene to act out.

Main Task: Camera Shots

One thing about our main task is that as far as the camera goes we jump around quite a lot. As in there isnt a shot that lasts over around 10 seconds. Our story line revolves a lot around flashbacks which are used to give the viewer an insight to the whole backstory and a hint to who is the "bad guy".

Our first scene shows our main protagonist known only as "Hunt" being shown walking to a bar. Once inside he makes his way to a table. Just someone walking then sitting down is fairly boring so we decided to make the most out of what we had there and make the shots as interesting and invloved as we could, really showing how Hunts feeling. For example in the bar there was a pillar in the middle of the room with two pains of glass. If looked through at the right angle you could see 2 of whoever walked past. This was good because it could show that there may be 2 sides to this character... There was also a shot just after Hunt has walked through the entrance and is making his way to the next room. The camera pans and follows Hunt from a table. We used this to make it seem like we the audience were sitting in the pub and watching him.

There are a few Dutch Shots used aswell to give a feeling of uncertainty and mystery in the film. One is used in the pub through a reflection in the mirror, again making the most of what we had there, this is the last shot in the pub before we cut to our first flashback. We use another Dutch Shot in out first flashback of the police interrogation with the cop telling Hunt that they've had to drop the case looking for his sister.

In the last flashback scene we see Hunt in a bathroom hanging over a sink, panicking and breathing heavily. We open this flashback by showing a first person of the camera looking over the sink. The camera is unsteady and shaking, a lot like Hunt was in this scene. The camera cuts to 2 medium shots in the space of around 5 to 7 seconds. We wanted this scene to feel slightly paced to help with the tense feel.