Saturday 2 November 2013
Warning there is violence in some of the examples that i'm showing!
Because the opening
minute and a half from my script mainly consists of mobile phone footage, I’ve
been trying to find examples of this style used in movies/short films; and also
examples of the different qualities of footage from mobile cameras.
The first example is
one from a short film that I got presented in class called ‘Soft’ Written and
Directed by Simon Ellis. The use of mobile phone footage throughout different
scenes in this short film is the look that I like and was particularly drawn
towards, as it’s a common practice now days amongst bullies to film their
assaults that they’re carrying out.
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This is my favourite
example because I like the rubbish pixelated quality footage, and the guerrilla
style point of view filming. It gives the viewer that personal up front feel
like they’re being taken on a journey of whatever the camera man wants them to
see. Also the tinny audio that we can hear helps to further project the fact
that it’s coming through a mobile phone camera, the peaking on certain high
pitched notes which slightly distorts the audio is a common feature of most
mobile phone cameras, as they can only allow a certain amount of
loudness/volume through its low quality onboard microphone before it starts
peaking and distorts.
This example that I
found online called ‘the greatest movie ever’ by FamilyFirstJ was filmed
entirely on a HTC EVO 4g mobile phone.
I like this example
because of the poor grainy quality from the camera, again gives it that
authentication that its coming from a mobile phone camera.
Because my opening
scene consists of a boy being duct taped to a pole, I thought that I'd look
at some examples of this happening and see how it looks and sounds raw, as in
no editing done to the audio and video; because my previous examples are all
edited, also, in order for me to have an idea of how I’ll need to set up my audio recording and what quality of camera recording to use. The best and quickest time saving way to do all of this is to see what has been done before.
Below are some examples that i've found and like:
The quality of the
audio from all of these mobile onboard Mic recordings is pretty much spot on
for the sound that I’m aiming towards, because it picks up the atmospheric
noise perfectly, it pretty much assures me that my background noise would sound
alright so long as there’s not too much wind on the day of me filming.
We can hear the duct
tape being pulled from its roll and we also hear the laughter of the individual
people in the videos, each sound element pretty much stands out clearly even
though we’re hearing it all at the same time, which is good. If I use wired
Mics on each of my actors to pick up their voice I could sync it with the
mobile video recording to give the actors voice more clarity, especially if the
day I film on just so happens to be windy.
Im also pretty much happy with the quality of footage coming from the phones as its not too high so the viewers can distinguish the fact that its coming from a mobile.
