Shooting technique:

For our Thriller movie we are going to use as many camera angles and movements as possible. These will shots such as: high angle, low angle, birds eye, close up and extreme close up. We will use movements like; panning, tracking and even shot reverse shot. I then had the idea of maybe using a slightly more original filming technique which is stop go animation. I saw the technique used in Doctor Who a while. This allowed the director to show a large amount of small details in a small amount of time very quickly.


 I thought that this would be a good idea for establishing the characters of Hazel and Cha Cha. It would allow us as the directors to show the small details about them that are significant to characterisation. These will be the shoes that they are wearing, the gun tucked into their suit trousers, their name tags, their ties and the gas mask that will cover their face. We all agreed that this will be the best way of achieving the best characterisation possible in such a short amount of time.
          In today's lesson Liam, Tobias and I had a practice at using this shooting technique. We spoke about how many photos we will actually need to take for this process to work properly. My camera can take roughly 3 photos a second, so I would need to move the camera slowly to ensure the amount of detail we want is captured and the sequence doesn't look rushed. The camera will follow an almost 'z' formation, switching between the two hitmen. This is the practice video:
This video took a while to edit due to the fact I had to edit the time each individual image lasted for. Most of the pictures lasted for 1/10th of a second  which is only a small amount of time. The most important parts where the small details will be featured lasted for 2 seconds. I think that this is a sufficient amount of time for the audience to register what the main details is in that shot. In total there are 55 photographs here. When I edited all the images together I added a sound clip in of a camera shutter to add to the effect of the stop go animation. The small sound clip really ensures that the audience know that every photo in the sequence has been taken individually.
          By testing this technique we now know that the sequence will actually work. It captures a high amount of detail and it will give contrast to the other shots that will feature in our Thriller. One problem with this technique which I found out when editing is that the process is very tedious. It took me close to about 45 minutes to edit this all together. This means that when doing this for our Thriller task it will probably take considerately longer to edit together. We will make sure the movement is smoother and that more images are taken. This means in total the final editing for this sequence alone will take probably just over an hour. We have decided as a group though that it will be worth it if we can pull it off perfectly.