Cinematography

Cinematography Group

Close ups

We used close ups to show the audience the expressions and feelings of the characters and by doing this, it helped the audience familiarise themselves with the clip and interact more with it. Here are some examples from our narrative;

A jump cut is used, paired with a close up, of her face while in bed. She immediately awakes and throws herself upward as if the previous scenes were just a bad dream. A close up facing the banisters Was then used with a focus due focus effect. The victims legs fly past the camera indicating that she has gone downstairs.  The next time you see her is when she opens the fridge to get a bottle of water. This shot was from inside the fridge and is considered a close up. This was to show her cluelessness of what was going on. Dramatic irony begins to develop. She warily reaches for the door handle (extreme close up) but the phone starts to ring. She puts her fingers to the blind and widens two of the blades and sees a masked man, in another close up, starring in on her.

POV

We used this shot as we feel it shows the unique view of the character themselves instead of what we persuade them into seeing. It shows exactly what they need to see. Here is how we incorporated this in our narrative;

She freaks and swings around to see know one their. This was done using a point of view or POV shot so the audience could see clearly the difference in what the different shots presented (man there and than gone). In on other POV shot, all the bedroom doors slam in the order she throws her body towards them.

Over the shoulder

We used this shot to show you what the character can see but also who is seeing it. This came into use to show the masked man at the table indirectly. This gave the audience the feeling that he is ready to surprise them but mainly indicates that their is a masked man in the house. This was its main purpose in this scene. 

She enters the living room and picks up the phone. We used an over the shoulder shot in this scene as a masked man sits at their table waiting for her to turn around. The hang up noise startles her and a sudden bang from outside makes her drop the phone. However an unexpected stop by her and the circling camera capture facial expressions as she sees herself on the green panicking for a way out just like in the dream and then from an over the shoulder long shot, she sees herself get taken by the masked man and the screen goes black.