Test Shots

The Night Shift - Test Shots from Holly Jones on Vimeo.

My media partener and I visited one of the two settings we will be using in our film opening. We have decided to use my workshop-to-be as our Mental Institute. This is because the room is big, empty and has very good acoustics with a slight echoe to make dialogue sound more eerie. The walls are white and clean and the room on a whole is very bright, making it a perfect scene for an institute. When we filmed the test shots there was a lot of debrie around. This will be cleared away for filming.

We looked at two of the key angles we will be using in our opening. High angle mid-shots will be used for Quinn to focus on her blank facial expressions and show she is seemingly small and therefore vulnerable. For Inspector Hodges we used a low angle mid-shot to track his reactions to Quinn's behaviour and to show he is supposedly the authority figure in the film.

Doing these test shots and investigating the setting has helped my partener and I to plan effective camera angles. We have also learnt where and where not to film within the room; for instance, the inspector standing in front of the main window blocks out light in the foreground, making the Inspector's facial expressions unnoticable and reducing the quality of the overall opening.