CONSTRUCTION: PLANNING CAMERA ANGLES AND SHOTS

In our lesson today we went out and did some planning to decide on what sort of camera movements and shot types we could use for our opening sequence. We decided to focus mostly on the doll as she is the main prop for our opening sequence. We came across some difficulty with the location and after thinking about filming in parks or playgrounds, we came across a tree house. We tried a variety of camera movements such as panning, in order that we could see the location and the doll sitting in the tree house. We then zoomed through one of the windows and focused in on the doll. We found this very effective. We then did a tracking shot of the woman as she walks up and into the tree house and strokes the dolls face. Finally we did a point of view shot where the woman looks through the fence to ensure she is not being watched.

After doing this and looking over the footage we decided that it is vital that we use a dolly when filming all tracking shots.