Main Task Shotlist

The shots that we will use throughout our opening will be:

• Establishing shot of a house to set the scene and show our first location.

• Close up of fairy tale book 

• Mid shot of little girl picking up book (do not see face yet for enigma)

• Panning shot taken with the camera on the floor following the girls footsteps to her bed

• Mid shot from the end of the bed showing the little girl and her father reading the book

• Also a mid high angle shot of them reading a story to show their facial expressions better

• Panning shot from bed to card on the floor

• McGuffin of playing card floating in the wind 

• Some sort of establishing shot in order to show the new location

• Mid shot (not showing face) of card hitting character

• Point of view from character looking at card

Whilst we were in the process of thinking about the different shots we wanted to use in our movie, we also decided to try out some of the different focusing techniques we could try out on the new camera. We adjusted the focus so we got sharp and soft shots from different distances and came to the conclusion that this would be a good effect to use in our piece. We decided that this could be a device we could utilise when we have the card on the floor in the little girls room, just before the transition forward in time, so it starts as an enigma but we then focus on
the card. Beside are some of the practice shots we got in order to test out how the focus works...