Sunday, 10 January 2010

Looking at specific shots



(40 secs)

We used a simple idea for this shot. We found a black background in the studio and decided to set the camera up in different areas of the room and see what happened. The actress in the video was specifically told to wear black and pink so that she fit in with our chosen colour scheme. In most of the shots of her we asked her to stand still and only show that she's acting through her facial expressions. She often portrayed distress as the song is about wanting something she can't have. In this shot, she was allowed to move and show more actively what the words of the song are trying to portray.



The lighting on her was only from in front of her so that we could avoid shadows forming as much as possible and also lightens up the dark background. When we edited this part we decided to adjust the colour on it to give it a slight pink tint so that it wasn't so dark. The tint is subtle however, it is visible as it brightened up the shot obviously.



As she was going to be moving in this shot, we filmed it as a mid shot so that she wouldn't walk too far out the shot or disappear from it all together. We found that this was a good idea as it meant that she was able to move without having to worry about leaving the shot. We could have moved the camera to follow her if she moved too much but we decided we wanted it to be a still shot.

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