8 Shot Challenge- Justin's Class Week One

12/09/18
Today in Justin's Lesson he set us a task to edit in camera eight scenes of a short film, it could be about anything and we couldn't create dialogue or have any sound within the piece. He put us into groups of three, I got put in a group with Dean and Erica, and then we all got on with storyboarding the story we wanted to create. We decided to make a story based on a stalking/ murder mystery theme. This task was to show shot types so we made sure we nearly every shot was different.
We started off with a wide shot and had our protagonist walk in and pass the camera. We then went into a close tracking shot and put the antagonist behind in the backing, we made it clear but if you weren't looking for it it would be possible not to see them.
Then we made a close shot of the protagonist's feet walking away and a shot of the antagonist coming out behind them. This is when the shots became quicker because it was getting closer to the climax of the storyline. The antagonist was stood in front of the camera in a perspective shot on the right-hand side of the screen and then it transitioned into a POV shot of the antagonist.
Then it went into a med shot of the antagonist hitting the protagonist and then a wide shot at the end of the antagonist walking away from the protagonist's body.

Overall, I think we did well with coming up with a coherent storyline and when shooting we made sure that there was a minimum of continuity errors by going over the footage and keeping a mental marker everytime we had to stop and look back on the footage. We did run out of time so the ending was rushed and there ended up being only 7 shots instead of 8 and if I were to film it again I would have a better and clearer idea of what we were filming so the first couple of shots would have not taken so long and would have been able to finish the scene and not have a rushed ending look to it.

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