'Bloodbath' - short practice film (workshop)

This was another short practice film myself, Katie and Elizabeth filmed in our camera workshop last Friday. This short film took abut half an hour to brainstorm as we had to decide what part of the studio we wanted to use for our 'setting'. - we ended up picking the 'bar area' in order to simulate a staff room.

We also chose the bar for our location as the script spoke about something being 'a total bloodbath', yet never giving context to what it actually means, this allowed us to interpret it in anyway, and we saw it as an important sale going wrong, whereas we first thought it could have been about a murder, and William trying to keep it under wraps as his colleague (Eric) tries to get the information out of him.

We then decided to have myself playing William and Elizabeth playing Eric, while Katie was our director / camerawomen.

It took us about an hour and a half to shoot our short film as we tried out several different shots per take to see what shot would fit the dialogue and performance the most.

While this scene was fun to do, it also gave us more insight into the different types of camera angles we can use for a scene, as well as how the camera angles can highlight different emotions on a certain character.

As with 'The Chair' video, this file won't upload either, however i will look into it and try to upload it and then delete this tiny section after it's uploaded.

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