First footage in 17 seconds... our first cut together sequence!

A man walks into the room, looks around suspiciously with the complete awareness of his toughness on his face. Then looks down, takes a bag and walks out. This is a plot of our first footage we filmed this Thursday. It was a funny experience. But at first teachers just showed us how sequence usually filmed.

Everything usually starts with an Establishing shot (or Wide shot) in order to show the audience all the mis-en-scene, to give an information about location and somehow immerse us into atmosphere. After this we can continue with any shot we consider important to make which depends on the informarion we want to provide audience with. Commonly, we use Mid shot or Medium close-up to pick up the action in more detail. Then we can enrich our sequence with an abundance of Insert shots (it shows only the action. e.g. somebody's hand takes keys from the table) or Close-ups, but again it depends on what we want to show. In our case we used the simpliest scheme: Establishing shot, 2 Medium close-ups and 2 Insert shots. There is also a 180 degree rule which is quite important to use in order not to confuse the audience about actor's location in the space.

Finally, we were divided in 3 groups, given cameras and told to film something by ourselves. It was amazing to film something. This entire process is about comminicating and only 10% of it is filming. I adore it so much!

"Stand by" - "Standing by" - "Roll camera" - "Camera rolling" - "And Action!"

 

 

"Cut!"