Photo Reflection

This research helps me understand how to represent a chosen genre through camera work. while making our final opening sequence.

1)Describe your shot and identify in what way it could be described as representing your chosen genre.
I have chosen this image from the varied photos I had taken, as I felt this image represented the genre (thriller) I was trying to depict. This image works well in portraying the disturbed, eerie and distorted feelings an audience would get from a thriller movie this all due to the positioning the mise-en-scene etc. It is an image of a person standing far down a school corridor, with lockers on one side and windows on the other side. However we are unable to distinguish the character, unsure if it’s human or ghost, as the bright light and the long shot creates an eerie ghost image. To add a distorted feeling the image is on a tilt making audience tilt the head as they feel unease.


2) What did you actually do to achieve the effect?
I put the camera on a tilt to give that distorted feeling as if the audience was in another world. I have positioned my model far away from the camera so that he is almost a blur as if he was a ghost, with this I have a wash of bright light from the windows to add on that eerie effect. Also where I positioned my camera is quiet dark bringing out the white light out more making my model look more washed out than normal. 


3) Identify what is successful about your shot.
I would say that my positioning of my model and camera were set very well, allowing to get the right feel to create the thriller genre. The setting helped also, as the long corridor gave the image depth and with the bright natural light gave the extra eerie feel. 

4) What would you do differently in hindsight?

I would get my model to have put his camera down; also I would have added more bright white light to make it definite that my model was a ghost. I could have positioned my camera a bit to the right more to cut out that big section of just dark wall and more of a narrow corridor.

This camera positioning/shot was used in our final project of the opening sequence "deadly shadow". When the assassin Lotus exits we have a tilted angle when she turns around looking down on us.