What I learned cinematography wise

I found that my understanding of cinematography was limited up until the horror genre project where we had a discussion that really cleared things up for me and made me understand the importance of foreground which you'll hopefully notice in my project. And use of wide lenses and long lenses as there is no lens to fit all. Which I was guilty of doing, up until I had acces to the F3 which gave me a new perspective and really allowed me to spread my wings in that department as I got to utilize the 10 mm I believe and that was perfect for some of the shots I had envisioned. I cannot wait to do the music video next semester an I feel more confident in my ability. Oh and I found that blue lighting was way cooler for what I wanted to shoot for my horror film so I had to use that even though I did not specify it in my pre production.

reflections on filming

When I went in to film at Readings I was  a little bit worried as Ia felt as though I wasn't prepared enough for it. What I found was that I had actually over planned and so my schedule was shortened down, because I was flying through every shot and really understood what I wanted to capture and didn't have to stop and deliberate on what I was going to do at just about any point. We ended up finishing at the scheduled time of 2am, but only because I decided to take my time. I had my favorite crew members aside from AEJUN SETHU of course, in Lana, Corey and Dan who were absolutely fantastic and did their job perfectly and my actress Katherine was a revelation as she fully engrossed herself into the role and really didn't shy away from any of the scenes involving her to be some what out of her comforts zone and hopefully she will she people coming to her for acting jobs in the enar future. I got to use the F3 (with expressed permission and supervision of Ash Bartlett) which was great as I found the range of lenses was key in allowing me to capture the close up shots and generally capture the best image possible. If I was able to redo the filming I would only change and maybe add a few more shots in the ending sequence as I scheduled alot of shots, but maybe not the right ones and only due to the fact that I had no real access to the cinema until the night of shooting. Again, my crew was fantastic and I wouldnt have been able to complete the project without them.

Script outline

Cinematography script outline.

Inside reading cinemas

·    Kat serves the last customer as usual. Supervisor tells her he will be upstairs.

·    Kat checks each cinema, all the people are inside enjoying the movies.

·    Kat goes back to the candy bar and the popcorn machine is turned on and popping.

·    Kat hadn’t turned it on so turned it off as she is attempting to close down and clean everything.

·    Kat hears some kind of whispering outside the door and goes to check it out.

·    When she is outside she hears loud footsteps upstairs and goes upstairs to check it out.

·    When upstairs she cannot find the supervisor and uses the light from her phone to look around as the lights are out.

·    Kat sees something move and drops her phone and sprints down stairs.

·    Kat goes to cinema three to ask for help, but no one is there and there is no film on so she checks all the cinemas all with the same result.

·    Kat, who is terrified now goes to call the police, but the phone line has been cut and her phone is upstairs and she is to terrified to go back upstairs.

·    Kat goes to the door to get out of the theatre, but cannot be unlocked, so she screams to the outside looking for help, but no one is there either and she sees a reflection in the glass behind her of a scary face.

·    Terrified, Kat runs back to the candy bar and locks herself behind the door, which is code locked.

·    Kat, who is pressing herself against the door, feels it being pushed and trying to be opened to no avail until it starts unlocking the code and unlocks the door.

·    Kat tries to keep it closed and finally closes it and sticks a wedge at the bottom of the door.

·    Kat then hears the thing walk around and attempt to climb over the candy bar to get to her so she closes the door to the candy bar to lock herself in the stock room.

·    The sounds stop after a while and kat grabs a craft knife and decide to head for one of the other exits in the cinema.

·    Kat bursts the door open and runs to cinema three which is pitch black(we can see) and runs to the exit door, but it is also locked.

·    Backed into a corner, kat has no choice but to hide under a seat.

·    As kat is hiding in the seats, all we see is her face, and we see her see something come towards her and the end.