Filming and creative techniques

In todays lesson we were told to go away and shoot a short film based around a certain theme. The theme we were given was suspicion which meant we had to use techniques to portray this. This meant that the objective of todays lesson was to learn more about specific techniques used in the industry.

In our film we had Ben, Aqib and Alex acting and me filming. We started off with a two shot of Ben and Aqib which shows their bond as friends is strong. We film them walking through a corridor talking about things that went missing in the sixth form recently. We then used a point of view shot of Ben to look at Alex who was mysteriously wondering around looking at a bag on top of a locker. Alex then goes to grab something from a bag and we see an over the shoulder shot of Alex looking over at Ben. We then see Aqib run in and head butt Alex. After this we show a mid shot of Alex on the floor. We then rotate the camera to create a dizzy feel which adds to the fact that he is knocked out.

Once we did this we went back to class to edit anything that needed editing and tidy things up. Once we did this we walked around the class and looked at other peoples videos which were interesting to watch. It was good to see different ideas, however i didn't really learn much as i have seen all these techniques used before in films etc.

I found todays lesson enjoyable and this definatly got me thinking about kind of techniques to use in my music video.