ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Firstly, we decided to test shoot explore some potential ideas for the first scene of our movie. The scene focuses on a girl in a room, and we thought it would be effective to show her from a distance and then zoom into her face, and also her hands as she is writing. Then, we would of gone from this into a side shot, using the dolly as a prop to guide the camera steadily until the camera is facing the back of the girl, where we would then make the transition to an over the shoulder shot.
In the second practice shoot, our cameraman wasn't here, so Valeriya took control of the camera, using her experience from different shots using the dolly in the previous test shoot. However, it didn't go as smoothly as we imagined, as the shots Valeriya took were too jumpy, due to the fact we had no dolly.
The crane shot, we all agreed was the only one that was smoothly done, and after editing, although it wasn't perfect we could see a massive improvement to when we first started.
To have it perfect in the finished piece we will make sure we have the dolly to use and instead of using the same shot to zoom in, we will have a separate shot to do so.

The dolly test was the first time we actually filmed spontaneously, with the use of the dolly. We filmed about an hours worth of footage, only deciding to put the ones we felt were done the best. The first one, a scene from 'Romeo and Juliet' Josh captured the part where Valeriya fell perfectly, zooming out at exactly the right moment. Although once we watched the clip back it was obvious there was room for improvement when operating the dolly and needed to be slightly more steady when moving the camera.

For the next two shots, we decided to collaborate them to show a sort of short scene, where Valeriya reads a note and the camera moves closer, then stops to zoom in, this is called "?" it zooms into her eyes, causing a suspensive effect, and the scene quickly changes to Josh on a chair, as if the camera is going into her mind. It gives an eerie sense that he has something to do with what the letter is about, as the camera is moving along the dolly as his eyes are following it, however this also could've been done better by the camera moving less.