Daniel - Techniques to use in Opening Sequence

I watched a Music Video by Yungen with the song "Cuffin' Season" and I noticed techniques that were used in the Music Video that I would like to use in our opening sequence.

Negative Space (0:02 - 0:12) - This caught my eye straight away and gave me a clear vision of what it looks like on screen and why it would work so well.

Close up (0:18 - 0:20) - Close up on Yungen's face to show his emotion and what he may be thinking - We may use this in our opening sequence to show emotions of characters in the sequence.

Non - Diegetic Sound (0:24 - 0:29) - The heartbeat used to show his feeling. We want to use this for the music scene, with it being diegetic in the boss' place and non-diegetic in the action scene.

Overall it was a good music video and it definitely allowed me to think more about more ideas or to confirm old ones to implement into our opening sequence.

Daniel - Test shots

In Today's lesson we discussed ideas of how to shoot certain scenes, and with that we wanted to practice a 'Test Shot' to see if the shot would work.

From our clip we have deducted that using a skateboard for this shot would be better since it would slide across the screen and not have any jagged movements. But apart from that, and that we should have the camera slightly further away, we think its a good idea.