Continuity piece

This piece was created to show a range of skills and techniques we had at the start of the AS course. As the plot of our film called for a dressing room, we decided our location should be the drama studio at our school. This meant that our film should look realistic as we are not trying to make our location look like something it isn't, for example, trying to make a classroom look like a drug den is never very effective. The music is from Atonement and we found that the black and white effect compliments the old-fashioned sound of it. A variety of shots are used, such as tracking shots, tilt shots, over the shoulder shots, medium shots and close ups. To edit the film we used iMovie for Mac's, and the skills we learnt on this will be useful in creating our main piece of coursework later on.

practice camera shots

This was an exercise we did in class to demonstrate a variety of camera shots. We decided to create a sequence of photographs that would look as though Liv and I were being stalked by Holly.

This is a long shot/establishing shot. It is also a point of view shot, as Holly (our stalker) is hiding in the bush you can see in the foreground.

A very attractive medium close-up of me looking slightly confused - perhaps I heard our stalker roaming around the bushes.

A long shot of Liv and I walking away from the scene, unnerved by our possible follower.

This is a long shot of me walking away, yet a medium shot of Holly and her stalker-ish ways. She doesn't appear to be a very good stalker however, as you can see that she's not actually holding a camera...

A medium shot of Liv. Subtle glance to try and spy Holly?

A two shot of Liv and I, having a casual chat in the middle of all the suspense and uncertainty. This is also a tilt shot, from below.

This is a medium/two shot.

An extreme close up of our stalker!

The last picture is a long shot of mine and Liv's chat on the steps. It is also a downwards tilt shot from the top of the hill. I think we could have been better prepared for this shot however, as I appear to be flicking my hair around like an idiot.