Camera and Editing

CAMERA:

In the beginning of 'On The Run' we show more than one establishing shot that are on location shots; of the trees etc to begin the film as an opening in making them think whats going to happen in the forest without telling them it is a forest they undertsand, relate and follow on the story. This is similar to the case study 'BEN' because as mentioned before they use shots in the beginning before the main scenes of action, keeping the audience in suspense, even the use of angles as we used many showing different view points etc like BEN. Also at the beginning of the film we see the first actor shorai running in the forest, minding her own buisness through the use of the long shot, medium shot and close up shot to show her position in the forest as a normal jogger and nothing more. This helps the audience to establish her role automatically even without dialogue. This relates to the uses and gratifications model because it is what the audience does with the media - however they want to interpret a character. This also relates to Barthes theory because there is a flow and continuity because they know what will happen next from generic films (through the use of codes and conventions also). The different varietes of camera shots helps us challenge yet suprese the generic conventions of a horror film. Not all use dialogue and not all of them are as gruesome as others but we wanted to ullustraye our story by the footage more than the sounds, even though the sound tracks helps the audience follow along.

we used the camera in the forest and in the cargo. In the forest we used hand held camera techniques as well as some footage on a tripod. for a variet creating realism. we used the hand held for running scenes for an emotional and dramatic impact and we also used the tripod for stil scenes eg, when shorai was excersising so that it is clear.

This is an establishing shot, first showing simone creeping behind her representing her role verly clearly for the audience. We used this shot to show the loaction and both of the actors in one shot.

This is a medium shot, showing simone creeping into the forest around Shorai. We used this shot because you can see the surroundings much clearer its empty with simone walking in causes a little suspense.

This is an over the shoulder shot where can see shorai running from over simones shoulder. We chose this shot becaue they are both in it and are seen as two complete different types of people.

"BEN" CASE STUDY

This is an extreme close up shot of the belt restraining shorai. We used this shot because it shows her struggling clearly and what simone did to her during the black out transition.

This is a close up shot of Shorai in the cargo, restrained from moving via a belt. we used this shot because it works well with the narrative. And it creates emotional distress engaging the audience to feel sympathetic.

This is a close up image of Shorai on the forest floor, looking vulnerable, confsued and scared. We chose this shot because it shows her reaction more and we can see what will happen next and simones shadow.

This is a birds eye view shot, because it is like a bird is looking down at simone from the high angled tree. We chose this shot because we see her every movement creating realism and how empty the forest is creating suspense.

This is a hand held shot that the camera person is shooting looking like its the killer behind shorai's view like a perspective shot. We chose this shot because it is very different from the others, creating a thrill of a chase like the audience is in the chase, engaging them further.

This is an establishing shot of shorai at the centre of everything exxcersising. This shot was used because shorai is the main focus and the main actor so we wanted to illustrate her character to the audience clearly.

EDITING:

Throughout the whole film we used editing to effect the colour, lighting and mood of the short film, as our raw footage wasn't as scary and didn't meet every generic code and conventions. During the beginning of the film we used continuity editing in order for us to create action that flows well using visual shots and scenes like establishing shots to establish a sense of story for the viewer. The 'dissolve' transitions were also used in between majority of the cuts to show a gradual scene transition smoothly which we could do from final cut pro through many scenes for example when the sub titles come on then to day 2 ,the actual scenes of day 2. The jump cuts we use also add to the tension and mood of the whole film as it cuts out action for example when shorai gets knocked out at the forest then ends up at the cargo we didn't se how she got there but the audience can guess how from generic roles played many times before. This could be linked to the thoery by James Lull (1990) who was interested in role enforcement and substitute role portrayal. This is used in many of the case studies i looked at as it has a similar effect the audience have seen it else were and assume the role. A matched cut is used when Simone was chasing Shorai when the camera was going back and forward from the back of simone running the pov shots of simone. This shot generally connotes compositional elements that match helping them to see the action and understand it. This suggests that theyre both reacting differently to the chase and you see the different perspectives, showing the audience emotion as well as action. This is also used in the cargo scene when simone is looking at shorai and vise versa to show expression. In all of my case studies they used most of these techniques to get the audience really focused and engrossed with the narrative as well as anything else. The shots generally used to show this are the close up shots of reactions and facial expressions which is what we have in our film and in many of the case studies i looked at like BEN. This suggests to viewers what the actors are thinking and feeling without the need for dialogue.

In the ' Red riding hood case' study a shot reverse shot has been used to show conversation and relatonships whch in our film

has been used to show conversations as well. The shot reverse shot has beenused to show relationships in the movie the tenses

and struggles. This allows the audience to see what mght be happening distinguishing roles from what they stereotypically

know of already. As in the Ben and Jackie Case study the shot reverse shot has also been used

to show a conversation in a car through the use of an over the shoulder shot

During editing we didn't edit obvious viusal footage we editing the sound and the colour balance mainly. The sound we made quieter and it cameout much better we had heard these neutral sounds in our case study red riding hood but we dont have dialogue so we wasnt too sure.

In our short film we did use colour corrector because of the cargo lighting mainly, so you could see what was going on even though we did use additonal lighting and torches.

ON THE

RUN

"Electrifying, Eccentric, and Ultimatley Exclusive"