Planning cinematography-Miss Miller

Post on cinematography you are planning on using
1) Analyse 5/6 DIFFERENT camera elements used
2) Explain why you will use sepcific elements and how are conventional
3) Evaluate how effective you think it will be in terms of creating suspense etc.

The use of cimematography is appearent in all filming and reffers to all shots and angles used to create a scene. Throughout the course of this blogg i will analysing the different cimematography used and managing how i will use it within my thriller.Cimematography helps build a relationship between character and audience as the audience are able to see what is happenign from a variety of different angles, giving the audience a much more dynamic perseption on what is happening helping elevate certain elements, particuarly the element of vunerability which is a thriller convention that he thought a nessecary theame to apply into our thriller opening.

The first shot used within my filming (Frame1) is the pann. The camara panns from the veiw of the large structure, reffered to as the 'bell tower' during planning and filming, to the street where the girl is walking down. I have chosen to use this shot as apposed to an establishing shot to create a sincire atmosphere as the camara slowly panns down. Increasing the tension as the audience are unaware and eeger to see what the camara is panning to, aswell as introduce the audience to the loacation, giving them a idea of the scale of her isolation. Isolation is again a thriller convention that our group thought neccesary to use as it incraeses the thriller films tension as the audience know that there is no one there to protect them from the appending danger making the audince sympathise with the victem as she is portrayed to appear more vunerable through the use of appropriate cinematography (panning), this furthers the audience/character realationship.

The secound cinematography choice i have chosen to comment on in this blogg is the shot used in frame number 4. The P.O.V of the girl reading a text on her phone from her mum. I have chosen to use this specific element as it is relatable to the audience making them feel like the film is more real therefore increasing the tention throughout the film as they are more subseptable to the idea that this could happen to them. This is a convention as it shows how things are happening from a characters point of veiw. Increaseing the character/audience relationship as we as a audience are more aware of the traumatic, suspensful experience the characters are going through.

We also looked to conceal the antagonists identity as much as possiable through the careful use of cinematography such as long shot and shallow focus in order to increase suspense within our thriller opening as although the victim is unaware of our antagonists the viewers are given subtle hints of a potentially threatening presence. For example in frame 5 we use a rather complex cinematography method where there is a long shot/shallow focus of our female victim walking through a car park but when she walks out of frame a blurred figure in the background moves back into cover which draws our attention to the movement without getting a good look at what was there. increasing tension as the audience are scared and weary of the unknown, they know something was there watching her but rant sure what. In adopting this particular type of cinematography we are elaborating on the thriller convention of hidden identity, prominent in many popular thriller franchises such as 'Friday the 13th'. The element of hidden identity crates an enigma for the audience as they guess who the antagonists true identity is or in the case of 'Friday the 13th' to create mystery as to how and why the antagonists feels the need to conceal his identity.

A less controversial however necessary part of our cinematography for our opening sequence is a close up of our victems face (Frame 9). With the shot being on screen for 3 secounds it gives the audience a chance to clearly examine the clear emotions of fear and horror on her face as she comes face to face with our antagonist, allowing the viewers to reflect on the seriousness of the scenario she now finds herself in as tension builds as she slowly steps back with the shot remaining on screen. This technique is again a thriller convention as it is used in this context to make the victim appear more vulnerable. And our blonde actress only furthers the convention of vulnerability as blonde hair is considered a symbol of vulnerability in the film world, for example Alfred Hitchcock's 'psycho'.


The last piece of cinematography i will be analysing is in frame 2 where a low angle shot is used.
 The shot is used to convey the victims isolation and vulnerability which then increases tension as the viewers and being led to believe that something could potentially happen to this girl. The relationship we get in turn for this cinematography makes the viewers grow accustom to the characters and this relationship makes the film better as these emotions influence our opinions on the characters. These key factors of relationship between viewer and character are generally seen to be primarily focussed on by the thriller and the drama genre as they focus more on character emotion to exploit the more focussed plot and in turn make the film better.

The correct use of cinematography throughout my opening scene is crucial as to make my thriller film good i will need to use the thriller cinematography conventions in the hope that i will achieve the effects  of tension, mystery and fear. Creating this blogg has provided much help as i am now more clear as to what effects each of my planned shots will create allowing me to see what areas of cinematography i need to improve within my thriller opening.