Preliminary - Filming

Filming

For our first session of filming we took all the shots from the story board. We filmed the window shots, door shots and dialogue shots. We used a classroom with a large window as our setting and used a Teddy Bear we happened to find in there as our stolen object.

This shot starts as an overshoulder shot but carries on until subject 1 is in the center of the shot and subject 2 is directly above him. Therefore it does not use the rule of thirds. However, I don't beleive this matters as both subjects are in the center and are both roughly at the rule of thirds horizontle lines.

This shot adds the match on action to the previous. In this instance, I do think that the rule of thirds should have been used. Subject 2 is in a good place, but subject 1 would look better if he was further left. The window helps to frame the image along with subject 2's head and shoulder. One problem we had with this shot was that you could sometimes see the reflection of the camera in the window.

This shot is used multiple times in subject 1's speech. This was an original shot from our story board. It is a mid shot as you can see the upper half of subject 1's body. This means you can easily see emotion on the subjects face, and also the arm gestures. This shot also allows the viewer to see the teddy* which is important in the film.

*We just happened to find said teddy in the classroom we were fimlning in and decided to use this as our stolen object, though this was luck (and i dont like relying on luck), it does not really matter as we were going to cut up some paper to look like a wad/wod of money anyway.

This is the other half to the conversation shots. The subject is in the center of the shot mainly, though the window helps to frame it. The camera and tripod were kept in the same position for filming both conversation shots so that it did not look to choppy or inconcistent when editing, as it had done in 'our first short film'. One bad point with this shot is the fact you can see younger students doing PE in the sandbox through the window, this was a problem with our setting, and time of filming.

This is a shot of subject 1 coming through a door, it goes with the next shot to make an example of match on action. This is a mid shot and shows much of the subjects surroundings as well as the sunjects body language.

This is the close up on the door handle. You could call this shot the oldest in the book as it is an easy way to demonstrate match on action and this was why we took it. It helps to spice, slice, and splice up a scene to keep viewers interested.

I thought a shot of the clock would help create tension and add to the idea that the conversation was a flashback. It is a close up/insert shot.

Finally, we took a long shot of the teddy bear being thrown at subject 2's face. The long shot allows us to see the body language of both subjects and how subject 2 reacts. The positioning is also quite good as both subjects are sort of on the left verticle line according to the rule of  3, and the cross in the window frame mirrors this. A bad thing about this shot is that subject 1 looks back at the camera  at the end.

Example of the rule of thirds (not taken by me)