Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Planning - Shot Ideas

Seeing as my video doesn't particularly need a narrative I have just drawn a few shot ideas rather than storyboarding. Instead of putting my crude little etchings on here I'm going to list a few of the shots and ideas in writing so as to not ruin my blog:
  • I decided I'd get quite a lot of shots of my actor Gracie (who is transgendered and thus looks like a dude despite being mentally female) walking round abandoned places such as the few old factories and abandoned places in Kirkby whilst looking pretty vacant. I'll also get a few shots of her walking around town at night and in the rain.
  • I'll use close-ups of her face looking serious as well as maybe one with her middle finger to the camera.
  • There's a building site near my house that we used to go on and climb about on, we can break in and climb on there at night to get some cool idustrial shots
  • We can use the chain link fence around the building site to look like a cage and use that shot to match the line "Come little fucker, can you let me out?" because "let me out" implies the artist is trapped or encaged within something.
  • I'll use close ups and mid shots of her looking at the camera when it's raining showing her wet hair and clothes with a serious look on her face.
  • For the line "followed by the vision of my God" I'm going to show the clouds and the sun because the sky connotes God and religion.
  • Close ups of like moving worms and maggots and stuff that is 'angin'
  • At the begining I'm going to have a picture of a perfect red apple and then at the end have it looking all gross.
  • I'm going to get loads of shots of just normal things; I'm going to just film a busy road at night showing loads of cars.
  • I'll get a bird's eye shot from a really high building like the big Westgate building thing in mansfield and film the town below .
  • Shots down the Quarries including the running water in the little river thing. There's a little concrete shelter with grafitti everywhere, we could get a shot or two there of Gracie looking mysterious and sinister.
  • Down the quarries there are some train tracks that we can get a few shots of Gracie on, just like walking about on them.
  • POV Shots looking down on Gracie's feet walking around
  • After feedback it was suggested that I just use few shots of my cat just doing cat stuff
  • A blurred shot out of the bus window just showing the street, possibly when it's raining
  • Sped up shots of people walking around, in groups eg. getting off of a train
  • Feedback suggested I should only show the actor in blurred/unfocused shots, I may use this in a few shots to create more mystery around the actor.
  • Something, like a glass or a window or something, smashing in slow motion
  • Footage/ Stock footage of moths and other bugs
  • A flickering light
 

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