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Our groups's plan for each of our shots, the first row being mine
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The final shot
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Provide a brief summary of how you planned out your photography practical:
In planning for the photography practical, our main hopes were to get a photo that had a lot of mystery and enigma to it; and so the genre of thriller was chosen, as it provided a lot of flexibility to our shots. Initially, my still intended to consist of a close up hooded figure in the dark, surrounded by guns pointing to their head. I would have done this but taking multiple shots of the gun in different positions, then edit the photos to superimpose the guns onto one photo to make it look like there were multiple guns, but due to our time limit, we did not have time to take all these photos so instead, we chose a machete to use instead. The shot would look weird if there was just a flying machete, so we added another character in the background, and with some nice lighting, the shot was complete.
Analyse your chosen shot and identify in what ways it could be described as signifying your chosen TV Drama genre/subgenre:
My chosen genre was thriller, and one of he ways i conveyed this was through the use of colours and lighting. The still has a very dark background and colour scheme. This brings a lot of enigma to the scene as not much is known, and this is a convention of the thriller genre. The dark background also helps the main focal images stand out, and matched with the harsh lighting on the side of the actors' face, leaves one side of their face dark. This is to partially show the audience the emotion of the characters, the character at the back having a very cold look in their eyes, whilst the other character is just seen looking down almost as if he is accepting or unaware of what is about to happen.
How did you intend the audience to interpret your still? What narrative moment were you attempting to create? What meanings were you attempting to communicate?
I wanted my audience to see the actions of the characters and think about what will happen next. This is connoted to be that the character in the front may be killed, as he has a knife to his through with some blood already visible. I also kept a lot of mystery in my shot as the purpose of thriller movies is to keep the audience on the edge of their seat wondering what will happen next. In this case, the mystery is in the 'why is he about to die?' rather than 'how is he about to die?'.
Identify what is successful about your shot:
The lightning is what makes this shot work in my opinion. It helps hide the character's face whilst also showing some of their faces to reveal some emotion, and the lightning also just about shows the blood on the machete, connoting the events about to occur. The mise-en-scene also helps the audience identify the genre which is key for this still.
What would you do differently if you were to repeat this activity?
I would have spent more time planning if we had the time, but overall i am very happy with my still.
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