As Media Studies- Written Assignment (Camera Angles)

My Video

In this video the story we were trying to portray is the good guy being chased down by the bad guy. In the end the bad guy kills the good guy and walks away as if nothing has happened. The bad guy is a serial killer who is on a rampage. The baddy hits the good guy with his signature murder weapon, which is a big rock!

In this video we tried to use every camera successful angle that was listed however we do not think we captured a tracking shot and a tilt shot this is because we couldn’t find a place to use them in the atmosphere that we was trying to create and we couldn’t find a suitable place in the story line where those camera angles/ shots would smoothly fit in.

We chose to do the shot types and camera angles that we did because it fitted in with the mysterious atmosphere that we were trying to recreate. I think that the angles and shots we used made the scene come across how we wanted and all of the angles and shots in the right places. The shots and angles that we used made our scene look smooth and professional.

In some the shot was a little shaky, this is because this is our first time ever filming and we were still trying to get used to the equipment, which was provided. However towards the end of the video the filming gets a lot smoother as we became more comfortable using the equipment provided.

In the beginning of the scene as we were trying to get used to the equipment you see a pair of feet running however there were supposed to be 2two this did not come across in the video as the first persons feet was out of frame. After this point though our framing was relatively successful. You don’t ever get to see the murderers face as this was deliberately cut out to keep the mysterious atmosphere.

Overall I think our scene was very successful as for our first attempt we used to correct angles, shots and the scene was pretty smooth and nice to watch. You can see how the quality of filming improves as the scene goes on this is because we began to get comfortable with our equipment. To make the scene better we could have framed the earlier shots better as some aspects of the shot were cut out or even missed out completely but overall I thing that as a first attempt our scene was very successful indeed!