Camera Shots and Composition Task

The following video is an edit of a fragment of what could potentially be in my social realism intro. The task set was to think about 3 of the 4 areas of camera: composition, shots and angles, to try and create a small section of a film using clips with camera elements that add to the meaning of the film.

Within composition, I needed to think about the framing of each shot, the elements of art, photographic techniques, and the titles that I was going to include.

To begin with, I created a high angled shot to display the character placing a bag down to resemble a goal. I panned to display her movement, which I think was somewhat successful in leaving enough lead room. Although didn't frame it to display her head/face, I thought about this and framed it like that deliberately so as to retain the audience, who will want to know who this character is.

Secondly, I framed a close up of the football with another character running up to it and picking it up to set back down for a penalty. I think that I framed this fairly well, because I thought that it would be better to frame it to either side, as it is firstly, proved to be more aesthetically pleasing as opposed to being exactly in the centre, and splitting up the frame, and secondly, it was to be kicked in the direction of the furthest part of the frame, and so I thought, like a person, it should have a little lead/nose room to show movement.

I then cut to a match on action of the character handling the ball to check it's alright to score a goal with. I used what would have been a medium full shot, as it cuts of at around the knees, however I decided, again, not to show the face of the character for audience retention. If I could do this again, I think I would have zoomed cut off a little more of the character, perhaps from the chin to the waist, to show more of the football, although this shot size still displays a range of shot sizes.

I cut back to the shot that I filmed of the close up, to show the feet of the character. Not much happens in this shot as it is a very quick take to set the pace of the run up to the penalty. However, I do think that I framed this shot fairly well, as the movement of the character can be seen by just her feet.

I matched on action again to a slightly different, high angle of the ball being kicked. I did this to give the ball more space to move to the edge of the frame to show the way it was moving. It is to the side of the frame again for the same reasons I placed it to the left before, as it hits one of the focal points in the frame.

I then cut to a shot of the ball moving left to right through the goal. I do not think this shot is particularly creative, but it just shows in a basic way, that the character has scored a goal. I think that I should have cut the clip a bit more either way to make it a shorter take to make the pace and action seem a bit faster. Overall, I could have thought a little more about this shot to make it seem more interesting, as it is currently quite simple. 

To conclude, I think this task was fairly successful in getting me to think about my shots and about how well it would edit together before even filming. This is a useful thing to know for when I go out to shoot the real thing.