Our film is a British Crime Action Thriller sequence. In the clip the audience are shown the development in which one of the main characters finds out about the betrayal between two friends that are in the same gang. After seeing his friend/gang member with his girlfriend he chases him and eventually catches him up and says 'its not about her blad, its about respect' a punch to the stomach of the cheating gang member leaves him laying on the winded.
In our film my part was cinematographer, i had to film everything we needed in our film so that our film could be put together in the end by the editor and so that the sound person could put sound to it so it was a complete piece. Through using certain camera angles and camera techniques i gave impact to the film extract and allowed the film to flow quickly and become action packed when edited. I also filmed camera angles that allowed the film to flow, an example of this is that i filmed the one of the main male characters and the femme fatale walking past and also filmed the gang walking to give the audience the idea that both parties of people were walking at the same time and in the same area.
In our film as a group we decided that we wanted an urban setting to give our footage more of an edge and make it seem more gritty as this makes our film stand out more. We then discussed what genre of film we wanted to make, this was easy as we were all in to the same type of film and decided on an action thriller in a town which involved gangs as we could kind of relate it to real life. We the proceeded to watch various clips of films that are along these lines, the clips we watched were Adulthood, Snatch and 4321, which are gangster or gang cultured films. In the end we decided that our film would be like Adulthood and involve a chase scene as this could involve some interesting angles and make an action packed sequence that people would be interested in the clip we used for our inspiration is below:
This clip gave us the inspiration to include a chase because it involves good action and some good tracking shots which give a bit of action to the scene. We also added a point of view shot which added to the effect of a chase and gave you a feeling of what it would be like chasing someone.
In our film I chose us to do a point of view shot so that you could see that the main female and male characters affection for one another and to show you that they want to be together. The screenshot at the top of the post shows the main females point of view shot towards one of the main male characters.
This is one of the main points to focus on of our film as this was the base of our clip because it is about betrayal. The betrayal is between the two main characters over one girl and that she is cheating on the leader of the gang with his best friend. Using this we set up the reason for a chase because the gang leader finds out about this betrayal. In the chase scene I included a match on action shot so that you could see where the chase was going and so it was snappier and looked bet.
Within our ideas for the film we originally wanted to use a gun in the confrontation scene at the end of our sequence, however we decided to change this as it seemed a bit too extreme just over a girl and we decided to change it to a punch . The punch was used to leave a bit of a cliff hanger in our sequence as i decide to film a falling shot that the editor could use to give the feeling of someone feinting.
Overall with most of the shots I filmed i chose to do short snappy clips in it so that our film flowed and was quick paced so that the audience would be on the edge of their seats interested and would keep wanting to watch. I also involved a number of different camera angles as it made the film look edgy and make the audience even more interested.
After the film was put together completely our class mates got to view them and make comments on each micro element so that we could get feedback, involving the feedback i received about the camerawork is that the "POV shot was good and worked well" and that the "Match on Action" shot involving the walking section at the begining established where each set of characters were and that it worked well and looked good.
In conclusion i think our filming went well as we had no confrontations on what to film or about the genre of our film. Also i felt that my filming was up to scratch and worked well with what we were aiming for, the only bit that i think could have been stronger would have been the shot at the begining as it could have been more stable and looked better.
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