Initially, only one of our members of the team had done Media Studies at GCSE level. The other three, including myself, had not done anything media based before and were inticed to do the subject due to influences and inspirations. This was the first time we'd done anything to do with media and were thrown in straight away to film a chase scene.
Even though we had these drawbacks, I feel as though our team worked very well for our first times. We moved through the scene fast and precisely and only generally we achieved the shot first time. Other shots did take two to three attempts but the time was made up when the fast paced shots were filmed.
When going through the scenes we all discussed how the shot should be filmed. An example of this would be when Jamie, an actor, is chasing Luke, the second actor, through a corridor. We had a choice of about three different shots ranging from a low angle shot to even a mid to high angle shot. We quickly discussed what effect each would have and decided that a low angle shot would be best to show the effect of the chase being exrtemely fast paced.
Although there were some arguments in what shots should be used, each of us expressed our views but then the director, which was myself, had the final decision in what shot should be used.
Directing Role
As it was my first time doing anything media based, I decided to watch a couple of chase scenes from well known movies. An example would be the chase scene from James Bond - Casino Royale. I looked at the camera shots used for a chase scene and what shots we could use in ours.
When filming, the aspects of my role included;
- organising camera set-up
- directing actors into positions
- picking camera shots
- starting and cutting the filming
To conclude, I feel the production ran very smoothly and we managed to film all of the different aspects that we wanted to capture.
Here is the final production:
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