Friday 6/3/20 - Video Workshop

This short workshop was to introduce myself to filming, it gave me a chance to experiment with camera angles and film-making in general. My group took at look at two directors in particular to find some influence for shots, Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim) and Wes Anderson (Grand Budapest). We liked Wright's quick pans between characters during arguments and scenes of fast paced dialogue. We were also fond of Anderson's use of symmetry throughout his movies, especially in Grand Budapest. Instead of focusing on writing the plot or dialogue we wanted our pure focus to be on the cinematography, especially since my final project was aiming to be one without any actual dialogue.

We created this storyboard just to showcase a rough idea of what we wanted to include in our short film, it helped visually represent the ideas in our heads.

After multiple takes, to make sure each shot was as we planned, we managed to finish the filming. Editing-wise it was fairly simple, we only wanted to showcase our camerawork so most of the scenes were filmed in order and we only had a few actual final takes. This is the end product:

Personally I feel like we achieved our goal of looking at cinematography however, when it comes to my final project I want to of course have a lot more focus on the editing and the entirety of the film. One shot I liked in particular was the final one, it was a single take shot where we had the second actor move away when out of frame. I hope to incorporate something similar into my final project.