Camera Shots and Angles

This shot demonstrates a cut in to focus on part of the subject in detail, in this case the cut in focuses on the driver of the car turning into the desired location to drop off the protagonist, Alex Harrington.

This shot portrays a low angle mid-shot to show the antagonists are of superiority to the protagonist, portraying Alex Harrington to be weak and looking up at his captors, generating a feeling of weaskness in the audience so they can connect with how the protagonist is feeling.

This series of shot portray a conversation between the protagonist and the secondary character of the apparent, window cleaner salesman who turns out to be working for the primary antagonists. To portray a conversation we used over the shoulder reverse shots between the 2 characters to show their emotional response towards each other.

When filming we had to take intot the consideration the 180 degree rule as demonstarted in the 2 screenshots. The added effects to this scene to represent a flashback effect to give the audience an insight into the backstroy and an insight into the protagonists background to help the audience grasp the plot.

Here we used a high angle shot looking over the shoulder lookiong down onto the protagonist, Alex. This portrays Alex to be in a singificantly weaker position to the masked man, as the high angle shot makes the masked antagonits appear superior and dimishes the subject (Alex)

Here we follow the protagonist being violently dragged by the masked men through a panning motion that follows the three characters allowing the audience to follow the story.

Here we established the interrogation scene through a high angle long shot looking down onto Alex being restricted. The freznel lighting here helps the audience to focus on the subject as well as create an interrogative mood and atmosphere through the use of the lighting/spotlight.

Here we used a fish eye lens from the P.O.V of Alex, the protagonist. The extremne close up of the antagonist is meant to intimidate the audience and generate fear. Here we can see the antagonist dressed purposely different to the other masked men to signify that he is the "boss". We used a fish eye to convey a sense of "Alex" being in and out of consciousness.

Reverse shot of an extreme close up of the protagonist, Alex. The extreme close up allows the audience to view his sinister facial expression. The lighting here also shadows
part of Alex's face to convey a different side of Alex's character - to suggest a darkness about his character.

I feel that this shot is iconic in our film as we used this as the image for our promotional poster. We thought this image was extremely strong and really conveyed and portrayed what we wanted our film to portray, the uprising of Alex fightiong back against the antagonists. The mid shot shows both characters directly facing each other to portray the conflict between the two.

Again we used a P.O.V close up of the antagonist directly facing Alex, this reinstates the intomidation and again generates fear and suspense as he begins to question Alex

Here we not only establish the setting in which the protagonist gets captured but we track the masked men running up to the house, allowing the audience to really follow the action closely.

Here the audience know what comes next as they previously followed the antagonists enter into the house therefore this builds up tension as the audience follow the protagonist to his fate through a handheld tracking shot from behind.

Here we have a mid shot, similar to that of the iconic film poster. This portrays the protagonist to be in danger as the masked man directly points a gun towards him. The mid shot allows the audience to understand the danger the protagonist is in.

The close up of Alex here allows the audience to view Alex's facial expression and his reaction the immediate threat of the antagonist, it also shows the audience how the protagonust is captured and taken to interrogation.

The low angle two-shot of both antagonists portrays alex to again be in a position of weakness, the P.O.V allows the audience to be put into his shoes and therefore empaphise with him.

Again during the questioning, to create fear and intimidation we used an extreme close up of the antagonist to reinstate that interrogative mood and atmosphere.

Here we cut back to a shot previously used of a high angle long shot looking down on the antagonists confronting the protagonist. This shot allows the audience to see the intimidation and confrontation Alex, the protagonist is facing. This shot shows Alex to be in a lower position than the antagonists as it portrays their sheer dominance and threat to Alex. Again the fresnel lighting reinstates that interrogative atmosphere as the light spotlights Alex's weak position.

This two-shot close-up allows the audience to observe the relationship between both the protagonist and antagonist. And again this shot reinforces the antagonists power as he looks down on him with his hands gripping Alex's neck. This shot clearly portrays Alex to be in a position of weakness.

The low angle shot here allows the audience to view Alex's intentions clearly as the eye-line match portrays Alex to be noticing the protagonists weapon. This shot signifies to the audience that the protagonist will fight back against the protagonist giving the audience hope.






This wide shot allowed the audience to view the relationship between masked men as well as comparing the weakness of our protagonist to the sheer dominance of the antagonists. It gives a clear view of the setting of the scene and allows the audience to distinguish the speaker.

The close up of Alex in this scene allows the audience to view his slow rise of courage as he initially looks weak and unable to fight back - conveyed through the make up (blood on face). The close up allows the audience to see his facial expression and body language - both conveying the same feeling of him being powerless.

This close up contrasts the previous close up as it shows Alex to be taking a stand against his captors. The facial expression and body language imply him to be aggressive, intimidating and confrontational unlike what the audience have seen him to be prior to this scene. His direct eye contact with the camera convey this sense of intimidation and confrontation. The slow raise of his head signifies his rise of courage and revenge.

Here the depth of field becomes shallow to highlight the and focus on the gun in Alex's hand. Thus portraying a plot twist as suddenly the power is shifted onto Alex. The extreme close up of the gun intimidates the audience. I directed James to shake his hand while holding the gun to imply the fact that he's not a violent man therefore making the audience relate to him.