Evaulation of 'What are you doing here?'

In this we decided to use three different locations and three different shot types. Our first location was a high angle long shot on the stairs; we used a long shot to allow the viewer to see the whole location and the body language. Another location was outside on the path, we positioned the camera at the bottom of a bank to create a low angle long shot. This therefor enabled us to portray a new setting and different people within the shot. Also by using a low angle shot it creates a different effect to the previous shot which was of a high angle. The final shot we used was a medium shot through a set of doors this introduces the viewer to a new location and makes the scene more realistic as the two people are bumping into each other. The sound in the film included diegetic sound saying ‘What are you doing here?’ which was said in a surprised manner making it more realistic. Between each of the shots we used fade to black to illustrate the passing of time and changing of location.

The strengths of this task were that we used three different shots to create different effects on the audience. We used these three different shots to introduce the viewer to a new location and a new set of people. This made the scene more realistic and was similar shots to those used in television dramas. However the weakness of our clip was the sound as we shot it from outside and from a long distance it became difficult to hear all the sounds particularly in the low angle shot. To prevent this from happening we could film the clip and then recorded the voices again so it’s clearer. Then we would just insert the voice over the top of the clip making sure it matches up.

When editing the clip we used Adobe which was good as it allowed us to cut our clips, increase the volume of the dialogue and edit it to have a cleaner finish. To start with we had to experiment with different things to figure out how Adobe worked and what would work most effectively on our clip. Adobe was quite challenging to use to begin with but became easier over time. It allowed us to make our clip look much tidier by inserting text over the top and using fade to black in between shots.