Thriller - Practice Shots

We were slightly concerned with the different shot ideas which we would have to take, and as our teacher comes in early to school he kindly took some photos on his iphone and showed us how to edit them on garage band. This benefited us greatly as it broadened our ideas on different ways to film and edit.

For our opening shot in our thriller we wanted to have an establishing shot of the sun rising to set the scene. My teacher took some photos of what we would potentially like to shoot, he took this on his iPhone.

I think this is a beautiful shot which is very atmospheric and could potentially suit our thriller in the fact that as well as being seen as something beautiful, it is also very naturalistic and dark, correlating to the idea of the end of the world and how nature takes its course.

This is another example photo which he took, experimenting with a low angle shot which we found worked really effectively as the daunting bare tree branches leave little room for comfort and hope and although it's still a beautiful shot, it's less cliche beautiful than the first picture.

 This final picture was taken at roughly 7.20/30 in the morning (the same time as the previous pictures - as we found that this was the best time to capture the sunrise) from our media classroom. I like this one a lot because it associates with fire and burning which again links to our idea of destruction.


As well as researching our shots we also looked into creating a tracking shot which we took from a car driving up to school early in the morning.