Telling a story with only shots

Shots to represent a daughter announcing her engagement with only stills to get the message across with no sounds, movement, or text. My group and I chose the shocking news to be an engagement as shown in the short clip attatched and added a black and white affect to not only make it more obvious to the viewer that the news was shocking but also to link it to the theme of a silent movie. We were set this task in response to a class activity which involved piecing together shots from a scene in E.T. in order to see how easy it was to establish a storyline from just shots.

Storyboard+Rule of thirds

In making a storyboard we made two attempts. The first was incorrect as although it portrayed the storyline intended, it went against the rule of thirds and was too centred so we drew up another, this time making sure nothing shot was in the centre.

Rule of thirds: the rule of making sure nothing in the shot is directly in the centre and is a little off.

Different shots and camera movement

 Different shots and camera movement

In this scene the different camera shots and movements include:

~shaky camera before truck

~close-ups to show desperation and tension

~ariel views and long shots to show the 'awesome' stunts

~lots of different shots to make it dramatic

~panning

~no close-ups between charecters to show un-close relationship

~camera moving with movements of character-hand hold

~long shot-emphasis to scale up the scene-risk

~reverse angle-poihnt of view of the character (point of view)

~medium close-up-emphasis of the threat

~birds eye view of explosion-involvement

~boom-emphasise drama





Film shots

Different Camera Shots