Reflecting on Movie 1 and 2

Reflecting on Movie 1 and 2

Movie 1

In 'Movie 1'  lighting helped tell the story. This is because the story was about two cowboys having a stand off in a Weston styed setting. But the catch was they were having a stand off with a rock, paper scissors game. It had a comedy element to it as it was obviously not taken seriously. The lighting was very interesting. What we did was set up a big white sheet to hang across the background and shined four lights behind and in front and it created a nice orangey desert feel. To be honest I feel that we could of improved it a lot, this was because we didn't have much time to set up and film as no one could come up with an idea apart from me, but they ignored my idea unfortunately. My idea was to have an underwater scene with blue lights and ripples made by the white sheet, it would've been really good! So everyone agreed on this Weston scene in the end, which in my opinion wasn't anyone's finest hour, but it got done and it was an average short film which demonstrated how light can make a difference and add atmosphere to a scene. Web used a mixture of different camera angles, such as close ups, extreme close ups, over the shoulder shots and mid shots. As its a face off we want to see a lot of tension, and close ups and extreme close ups can defiantly create this for us.Also mid shots to set the scene at the start.

Movie 2

In 'Movie 2'  lighting helped tell the story. This is because the story was about a character parking his bike and a stranger comes along, knocks him over and rides off with it. We shot this film in the day time so we had good lighting to work with. We had artificial lights as well to brighten the scene. Looking back at the video I feel that the lights were too warm. They just looked a bit fake, but saying that the lighting shining at the start of the film could've been a sun set or rise? Some shots looked a bit over exposed or had way to much light shining on the subject. I really like the use of the 'Dutch angel' its a great inclusion to the film as it makes it more uneasy as the stranger approaches behind him. As for colour, it was not the best as we were not concentrating too much on that, as the task was to create a short film of your choice to include a Dutch angel, and we did.