General notes from fridays lesson

In our lesson periods 4+5 on Friday we fully assembled our final rough cut put to temporary music. However, we did decide on several changes, mainly more CUs and ECUs to exaggerate our protagonist’s actions and to give a wider range of technical shots but also what shots to re-shoot and slight editing changes.

Extra shots

When the camera is facing him from the front of the bench we decided on several variety shots in order to break up the MCUs and MLSs:

-CU on lips and cigarette
-Possible CU on eyes
-CU on hands rubbing legs (possibly not needed as we have the tilt but will shoot anyway)
-A shot from the right hand side to see half of his face (experiment with left and right)

We also talked about a shot of him then getting up off the bench after we have already seen him walking to link the two together as if cross-cutting but in different time frames and seeing him walk up to the path we have seen him walking on.

When our protagonist is walking towards to murder scene we want to exaggerate his ‘mash-up’ state similarly with exaggeration to detail using more CUs and technical shots:

-Handheld shaky POV
-CU/ECU of shoes as he stumbles or falls (several shots in quick succession but as one sequence)

Re-shoot shots

-HA tilt from behind (cigarette dropped more clearly, possibly mike leaning back more?)
-Cigarette dropping from behind ^^^ continuity
-Cigarette picked up from front ^^^ continuity
-Pan across, mike walking in and out of frame, care with shadows
-Mike falling over after witnessing murder (both shots- without breaking 180 degree rule and so having Rachel just in shot)
-Mike cutting up cocaine with bank card camera on table from his left hand side
-Mike snorting cocaine camera on table slightly behind him so that cocaine is just out of shot
-Mike leaning back in chair after taking cocaine closer on his face than before (CU)
-Mike MLS walking towards camera
-Mike MCU reverse track ^^^ shot in between so slight change in distance doesn’t look weird, and make sure same walking speed.
-OTS witnessing murder (costume issues)

Editing issues

-Exaggerate fades, maybe used with slow motion and much longer than previous.
-Experiment with non-additive dissolve rather than additive dissolve
-Use colour wheel for black and white with emphasis on midtones rather than standard black and white effect.

cool x