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Camera Use

Looking at the video we created I wish that we had added more close ups than we had in it, but we did have some nice long shots and establishing shots. The camera did a lot of hand held movement in the video, especially towards the end of it. We started the video off with a high angle panning shot and during the first minute or so we only had eye level shots so it purposely looked a little boring and normal so that when the dodgy dealers appered thats when the close ups started to kick in and the tension was built up. When the action starts the camera becomes more shaky and disorentating to the audience and the high andlow angles are applied to show the power of the characters.

Editing

The opening and closing shots are fades and there is one shot where one of the charaters is staring down the barrell of a gun which is also a point of view shot cut when the weapon is fired and goes black then fades open to show the outcome. We were very good at match on action in this video and only had two continuity error were one of the characters walks into a DVD shop and asks for a spesific DVD; just before that shot you see the clerk looking at a pile of videos, when the shot cuts away then cuts back the vieos are piled up differently. The other is when one of the characters looks around to see two other characters coming through into the shop, when he turns around again he's facing the wrong way. We also broke the 180 degree rule once in the video in the same shot we had one of the continuity errors, when one of the characters turns around to see who's coming in the shop, when he turns back round the camera is on the wrong side. We also see a point of view shot when he turns around and we see what he's looking at.

Sound

There was only two uses of non-diegetic sounds and that was the music used at the start and the end of the video with the music, the rest is diegetic like the gun fire which some of is synchronous and some asynchronous. There is one scene with ambient sounds where in the closing shot the dealer is walking away there is police sirens in the distance but getting louder.

Mise-en-scene and lighting

We had plenty of props and even some lighting in this product, some of the props used were a gun, a briefcase which both were used to represent the power of the charater over the other. Other props were the lighting themselves in the shot were you can see the set of the cooking show, plus other props used when you see the cookin show on the telly was a cooking bowl and chocolate, flower and water with some cooking utensals. The lighting was used for the cooking scene on the telly so it looked like a brightly lit set and when it was on the actual set they represented the set itself as props to give the impression of a live show. The ligting was pretty high key so the whole of the character was lit. The sets had to be chosen carfully because we needed them to look like what they were representing, for instance the DVD shop had to look like one so we needed to find somwhere that already looked like one or had the potential to look like one.