My First Project

Wanting to have a carer in cinematography it means I have to practise a lot, so when I am doing a project it is a perfect time to experiment. I'm going to have a look back over some projects and break a few clips down.

I first looked back at my first ever project which was an opening title sequence to thriller film which I had to make for my AS level media studies at school. Looking back at it now I can see it was very amateur but as a first project it isn't that bad as I could pick out a few good bit from it.

This is a screen shot taken from the thriller opening sequence, here you can see the villan sitting in front of his laptop looking for his next victim. As it was a thriller I asked him to wear dark clothing. I decided to shoot this shot in a dark room so that he blended into the background, I also asked for him to put his hood up so that we couldn't see his face to make him anonymous. Shooting in a room that is completely dark makes it impossible to see a subject so when lighting the room I was thinking of clever ways of lighting the subject without showing him to much and that is when I came up with the idea of using the light from the laptop screen light his head and nothing else leaving him and his surroundings unknown. This gave the shot a really nice look and I was very pleased with the outcome. 

Looking at another set of screenshots from the thriller opening sequence we shot at the train station for when the villan is following his victim around. I needed to get a shot for a title to go on so when I saw the train coming towards the platform I quickly set the camera up on a low angle with a bit of the platform in the corner of the shot. Leaving the bit of the platform in the corner of the shot left me with a good area to place the title on, so knowing where I was going to place the title as the train was going past I had focus on the train at the start of the clip but then I pulled the focus to the platform in the corner of the shot. This gave a nice area for the title to placed in 

post production. Looking back now I am very 

pleased with this shot because it was set up very quickly and done in a rush but it turned out to be on of the best shots in the whole thriller opening sequence.