Sunday 18 January 2015
After a successful week of shooting, here's the type of shots that i managed to get with brief explanations behind some of the shots.
I also managed to collect dvd's off of the boxers who've had fights as well.
For the shots i set my frame rate to 25fps in order to make my footage look slightly softer and to give it that filmic look (Kelson, 151:2009)
While i was filming i shot sequences of most of the different scenes. Because i was going to be editing the footage, i shot anticipating the editing process because "It is very important to think about the editing process when shooting"(Owens, 186: 2013), "Otherwise, it is possible to end up with a series of shots that do not fit together smoothly." (Owens, 187: 2013)
Medway Park
Establishing shots of Medway park
For this shot i used my 18-75mm zoom lens at 18mm to capture medway park as a wide shot, fitting as much of the picture within the frame as possible in order to capture an establishing shot "also called a master shot, it establishes the scene and what's going on in it." (Kelson, 168,: 2009) "A specific type of extreme long shot used to tell the audience where and when the program takes place." (Harris, 95:2012)
Throughout the Medway Park scene it then cuts to a close up that allows "the viewer to see more details as compared to the long shot of this same scene" (Owens, 158: 2013) providing more contextual information within the image so that the audience understands the subject more clearly (Owens, 178: 2013)
Danny Shannon
I filmed this scene for the edit in order for me to do a match cut "A Type of edit in which a similar action, concept, item, or a combination of these is placed on either side of a cut." (Harris, 474:2012)
Martin Hillman
In order to convey the serious dedicated emotions from the boxers, i filmed some extreme close ups of their face because "By filling the screen with the face, it easily communicates the emotion of the situation. A closeup of an object allows the viewer to understand the detail a bit more" (Owens, 157: 2013)
Ollie Edwards
I filmed some of my shots of the boxers at a low angle looking upwards so that the composition would insinuate that the boxer looks "important, strong, or powerful" (Owens, 164: 2013)
Haidar Sadik
Alongside filming extreme close ups, i also filmed some over the shoulder shots of the trainer doing pad work with the boxers, because "The over the shoulder shot generally presents a more dynamic, interesting, and aesthetically pleasing picture than the flat double-profile two-shot." (Burrows 150: 1998)
Ricky Leech
