Task 1 (A): The Discussion

Complete the discussion of how and why you used Single Camera Techniques with screenshots from your footage

1. We began filming with a Master Shot in order to set the scene of our Webisode Film and show all the characters and the location of where you are filming it. In Single Camera Production, this is important because you are able to continue with the story that you have planned out with your group of what is going to happen in the film.

 Master Shot

2. We followed the 180 degree rule in order to have the continuity continue to flow and by not breaking it. This is because in Single Camera Productions, you have a line of action where you have two cameras on the left and right between the actors or actresses but it means that you have to stay within the rule as it is possible that the person maybe tempted to break the flow of continuity to film a scene from a different shot angle. But in our film, we had continuity at times in our short film but we had broken it at the same time as we got tempted to film at different angles but we did not use the depth of field in our short film  .

3. Because we were shooting each shot individually, we grouped all the close-ups on the character's expressions and emotions through on different scenes of our short film and made sure that all of the camera shots were all together. Because we were shooting individually, we were able to compose the shots using the rule of thirds to have the main focus on the main characters in a single shot.

4. During the interview scene, we used shot reverse shot to show that the Police Detective and the victim's friend are having a conversation about the victim and by the use of our hands, it made it more effective due the flashbacks of the victim being killed by a unknown person.

5. We used a high angle on the scene where the Police Detective was writing notes from the answers that the victim's friend gave until he gets a phone call from a unknown person to show that the character (the detective) is vulnerable or weak to answer the phone call as he does not know who it is but since we were shooting with one camera, we had to set up these shots individually. This makes our webisode more interesting to watch than if we had used multiple cameras.

 High Angle

6. During the shot of a clock ticking, we used the movement of tilt (Dutch) to express that the shot has changed from a normal way into a slope which can make a better composition but does make a change in the horizonal and vertical lines within the shot. This is to make the audience feel more interested to continue to watch the short film because it creates of a more dramatic effect.

 (Dutch) Tilt

7. To involve the audience and create a sense of realism we used certain scenes from our short film to have the realism and have an audience to engage with it as well. In the scene of the girl getting kidnapped and killed by an unknown person which is realistic in real-life because there is cases like this happens a lot which will make the audience feel emotional and have sympathy for the character who just died.

Both of these screen captures shows realism of where the girl gets kidnapped and killed by an unknown person which is realistic.

8. We decided to use low key lighting to have a sharp conparsion between the light and dark areas on the screen of a film but also create dark shadows which is used in thrillers and horror films and show the character is in the dark areas of the shot. Also we added a color correction on Final Cut Pro to convey with the dark areas of the film but the lighting at first was very bright due to the camera that our group used had very high exposure to the light. 

9. We built our scene using a variety of coverage shots for example: close-ups, Match on Action, shot reverse shot and rule of thirds. This was in order to continue our story with the Master Shot that was  captured and filmed at first and by doing this, we had to then edit the sequence of the coverage shots together with our Master shot. We used cuts between shots to show the action in our short film  happening at different locations and to show flashbacks, we showed clips of the victim getting kidnapped and getting killed by a unknown person because we used a non-linear narrative to show what has happened in the middle of the story in our short film.