Camerawork
Camerawork is a crucial part of the planning and making of our thriller opening sequence. We needed to ensure that we knew what shots we wanted to get, and why they were useful, and make sure we had a variety of shots too. For the planning of our film we decided that we wanted to use one continuous shot that continued filming throughout the whole sequence, which helps with continuity, and then we would film all the other individual shots for each scene. For example the first scene of the main character walking into the house, we would first film over the shoulder, and then have another shot we would later film with a close up of the door handle, and in the scene in the bedroom where the main character is seen packing his bag, we filmed close up shots of each of the items he would be putting into his bag. We used these close up shots in the bedroom scene, so the audience was able to see clearly the items being put into the bag, and these were all cut together quickly to show the suspense of this scene. When filming our opening sequence, we needed to make sure all the shots were filmed correctly, which sometimes meant having to go back and film scenes again. In actual fact we decided to refilm the whole sequence, as there were a few mistakes in the first version that we wanted to alter, so we needed to refilm. In each shot we also need to make sure there is continuity as well, like making sure things are in the same place and that we go by the 180 degree rule, which is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene. Once considering and fulfliing all these things we were fully ready to film, and also filmed each shot in the right way to complete the opening sequence
