OTS: Camera and Composition

In our opening titles sequence we used multiple shots, with different camera angles so that the Everyman is seen using all of the props on the table. Shots such as high and low angles are used to show how the Everyman is feeling, or what he is focusing on meaning the viewers attention is drawn to that object aswell.

Low pan across the desk

In this scene the camera slowly pans, from right to left, across the desk. The camera is angled so that you can see the Everyman using the typewriter, while panning across all the props such as the gun and the whiskey. Since these are unusual items to have on a desk it could draw in the viewers attention.

Although the Everyman is in shot, you can't quite see his face, this angle is used to create mystery and he will be revealed later on. Although we used this angle to create mystery around the Everyman's identity and revealing all the props for later shots. It could be seen as the Everyman being in a vulnerable situation, masking hid identity by hiding in his office.

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In this clip we used the camera dolly Max and Greg created. This made it a lot smoother that doing a hand held pan across the table, because this made is a lot more shaky and would occasionally reveal a bit too much of Greg's face ruining the mystery

a problem with the dolly was that occasionally the front left wheel would come off the track because the camera was a bit heavy, to overcome this we decided to have Max feeding it half the way across from the right, then I held the other side making sure the camera was steady and wouldn't fall off. This was slightly annoying because it took two men to operate rather than one, but was easily overcome and didn't affect filming noticeably

This is a link to Max's blog about the making of the camera dolly:

http://mshepherdasmediaproductionschs2016.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/camera-dolly.html

In this Max has explained what materials they used, and what the process of making it was. There are all accompanied with pictures of the dolly being made.

Over the shoulder shot

In this shot, we see the Greg using the typewriter from a high angled over the shoulder shot, this is to portray him as feeling high/good because he is writing his confession.
For this we had no space behind Greg to put a tri-pod, so instead we attacthed the camera to the tri-pod and i held it, the problem is that we still got the stool and tri-pod feet in the shot. Another slight error was that i couldnt keep the camera perfectly still

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