Practice Shots

Before actually filming, I had to get familiarised with the camera and practise my techniques as the main cinematographer of our group. This is in addition to the experience from the preliminary task where we first used cameras and started to get a feel of how to film a scene. These test shots comprised of two of the most complex methods that are planned for the actual filming - this will make it to easier to film on the actual day because I know that I will be able to see the mistakes I make and improve my filming skills. 

 

The video above shows two examples of a graphic match shot which is a transition between two shots where the contents in the frame are similar to one another and it shows a relation between them both; in this case, the shots consists of two television sets and two doors in different parts of my house. The latter is more practical because my group's storyboard consists of a scene where a graphic match takes place between two doors to show that time has passed for a character to leave one location and arrive at another. One thing I could have improved was to get my framing a little more accurate so that everything lines up correctly between the two objects that will be in frame. 

 

This video conveys a practical example of a match-on-action shot showing me walking through a door to get to somewhere. This contains a long shot of one side of the door where I am about to exit, a close up of my hand on the door handle and a long shot of me leaving from the other side of the door. For the audience, this simply shows that the person on screen has left through the means of a door rather than showing someone heading in the direction of the door and cutting to him exiting on the other side - this is a more easy going and natural way to show someone exiting a room (through editing). What can be improved here is to include more footage to make it last longer because in my opinion it felt like it was going very fast as if I was in a rush; however I don't want to slow the pace so much so that it takes a very long time for the person on screen to leave a room.