Camera Angles and Movement

We used a storyboard to outline and illistrate our ideas as well as helping us decide on camera angles and the movement of the camera so when we arrived on location we would have a set idea of what we were looking to achieve. The opening to the film we decided to have the foot of David White splashing into a puddle and from this puddle the title of our film would appear 'Blueprint' this shot of a foot would be done using a close up as to focus just on the foot and the puddle adding a sense of mystery to our opening. This shot then moves in to a longshot of David walking away from the camera and down the road where the camera next captures a long shot of him walking toward the camera and he comes closer as he walks briskly past thus connoting to the audience that he is knows where he is going and is intent on reaching his destination. The next shot we got from inspiration from the film 'Kindergarten Cop' which we had analysed in a previous media lesson. Here the villain is walking along and on another tier in the mall you can see the man stalking him appear, we used this type of shot in our film with shot of the villians had containing a knife on a extreme close up and with David White in a long shot walking past not yet clocking the villian and adding suspence to the scene as the audience are now informed of the villian being armes. Throughout the film we also used a series of close ups both of David White's and the villians faces to show the different emotions portrayed in both of them and show the audience some of their character. This made the villian seem more sinister and also made David White come across as more clever than first thought as he has known the villian has been there all along. We got our idea for the villian from the American series 'Heroes' and this also inspired our camera angles as we tryed to keep more detached from the villian and become more involved with the 'hero' of the film David White. These close up also showed the feet of both David White and the villian portraying the different speeds at which they were getting away conveying the idea of prey and predator. We decided a chase scene was necessary for our opening scene as in our questionaire this proved a popular choice for what our target audience enjoy in the opening few minuetes of an action/thriller. We also used a series of close ups to show the feet of both White and the villain to connote the pace at which they are performing the chase scene and therefore highlighting the sinister nature of the villains slow paced footsteps compared to White's fast running pace which ultimately gives him enough time to hand over the briefcase containing the brief case to one of his colleges.