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Explanation

Professional Comparison

Use, develop or challenge?

5%
Shape of
my film
(Wide
shotscramped
shots)

10%
Wide shots
cramped shots
used to build
tension and
surprise the
audience and
also to build a
sense of
antithesis
spacious green
leafy
environment >
a feeling of
confinement
and isolation
The duration of
a shot for up to
20/30 seconds
or longer - used
to create
awkwardness
and build
tension
Shooting from
young girls eye
level

15-20%
Stripes wide shots of
apartments and man to close
coverage of two men, which
dominates most of the narrative to
capture the sense of being pinned
and penned in imprisonment

35%
I have a frame within a frame
(him imprisoned in his own world
encapsulated in the world, with
the bigger world around him
Two antithetical types of
framing/distant/space
The tightness of the frame of the
LCD screen looking on to the
openness of the Grange.

Soft opening long take real

time urgency and immediacy of
news footage
The Most Beautiful Man in the
World used to create a sense of
stasis sensuality

Used them to create a similar

kind of awkwardness with the
man in the field (TMBMITW)

Two Cars One Night we are

taken into the childrens world in a
more absorbing way by everything

Between use and develop

Use Low angles to
communicate vulnerability,

Long
takes
(exampl
e)

Camera
angle
(exampl

Developed it as we see more

going on with the character
behind the scenes

Effectiveness
successful or
unsuccessful >
bigger picture
25%
Effective immersion in
protagonists world and
psychological wellbeing > his social
difference and
dislocation.
Protagonists isolation
as a voyeur against the
womans isolation in
the wider space.

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(standing or
seated)

being filmed at their eye level and

from their point of view even
when adults appear, we only see
their bodies (still from childrens
eye level)

fragility (+ more)

Conventi
on

Explanation

Professional Comparison

Use, develop or challenge?

Effectiveness
successful or
unsuccessful >
bigger picture

In the social
realist genre,
real locations
have been
traditionally
used in
preference to
studio sets.

The Most Beautiful Man in the

World, Gasman and Cubs are
all location shoots. Interiors and
exteriors have been carefully
selected for their capacity to
represent specific class, status and
regional identity.

I partly followed this convention

by shooting the majority of
interiors scenes in flats on an
estate in one of the UKs most
impoverished wards.
I have challenged this convention
by shooting the autobiographical
scenes of confession in the

The real flats I chose

for my locations have
tiny dimensions and
have very effectively
communicated the
rabbit hutch-like
conditions people have
to suffer in some of the

Naturalisti
c setting
Few
character
s
Limited
availabilit
y using
different
settings
Location
shooting
(exampl
e)

drama studio at my college.

older block structures

on estates this
powerfully conveying a
sense of their neglect
by the rest of the
society.