Mini brief analysis

This shot was used in order to make our film appear with a CCTV edit. This worked well as we was able to add a black and white filter in post production as well as they red recording sign. Also, we were able to sharpen the shot in order to make it seem less high quality than the rest of the film. However, due to us not using a tripod the camera and shot were very shaky and this meant that the shot kept on coming into and out of focus. If we was to film this shot again  we would use a tripod in order to make the shot appear more smooth.

During this shot we once again noticed in post production that the shot was out of focus. This meant that our film lost some quality as the shot did not look professional.

Our match on action worked well as we were able to shoot from both sides of the door as Absinthe walked through. This meant that we were able to easily edit this shot together as they had a long period of time which could be cut out. However once we finished the match on action in our next shot the door had already shut so we had to add in a black screen with a loud slamming door in order to make the continuity better.

This shot worked well as it meant that the hostage looked powerless however we quickly noticed that we had broken the 180 degree rule as we had only made certain that we kept to this rule during the shot-reverse-shots, used later when filming the conversation between the two characters. 

This shot worked well as we were able to incorporate our location which we had found in our recce in order to create a good mise en scene. This meant that the film was of a better quality as the location matched the action happening on screen.

Our shot reverse shot worked well as we kept to the 180 degree rule however during the shots of Absinthe there was sometimes too much dead space that had nothing to do with the narrative. Next time we shoot a film we would need to make sure we take dead space into account so that the action is in the main aspect in the frame. 

We also used a point of view shot in order to make the antagonist seem powerful as they were looking down onto the protagonist. We wanted to make the shot slightly out of focus as the character had been blindfolded so his eyes would need to adapt to the light, however due to us taking something of the camera lens it was a bit too much out of focus and we are barely able to make out the emotion on the characters face. 

The next shot we used was a close up shot in order to make the weapon appear as a main piece of iconography and also make the audience realise that this is going to have a fatal effect on one of the characters. We are able to see the antagonists hand grab the weapon without seeing her face which means that we are making assumptions about what she is going to do.

The last shot that we used was once again a point of view shot as this allowed us to create a good effect in our film as this meant that the action was in the eyes of the audience. This is also called a head on shot as the action is straight on to the camera. This worked well as we incorporated some diegetic sound of metal hitting someone around the head which eventually faded into the soundtrack that we decided to use until the title of our film appeared suddenly at the end.