Tricky shots Practice example

Filmed by: Tom Morris and Matthew Gollick 

Edited By: Matthew Gollick 

This post was written by: Matthew Gollick 

Myself and Tom noted several different kinds of tricky shots which we will use in our short film. We then went out and practised these shots in our surroundings. This helped us to gain experience and the required knowledge in using the cameras and software which we will use to produce our final short film. I edited our tricky shot example, and I filmed the final 2 shots of the Dolly P.O.V and the final shot Crash Zoom In Zoom Out. Tom filmed the opening shots. 

Our list contained many different tricky shots. Pan zoom was proven to be a difficult shot for our short film. We found this shot easy to achieve after several Prentice's at this shot we had a  good pan zoom shot which worked well. The main problem we initially found issues with was panning the camera and remaining on track with the zoom following the character.  

The next tricky shot we tried was P.O.V Dolly shot. This shot we will be using in our internal scene of the house when Brian is walking into the bathroom he will be looking towards the bath as the camera is dollying forward. We practiced this shot several times until we found it easy to dolly forward with the camera to a tilt downwards looking towards an object of matter.    We found this shot really hard to achieve at first as the shot was not smooth enough. When we film our short film we will have to ensure that the camera remain as still as possible. 

The next tricky shot which we tried was Tilt low angle shot. This shot was hard to film as the timing of the tilt has to match with the characters movement at the same pace in order for it to look good. We successfully filmed this shot with the motion of the character and this looked like this was going to be achievable in the scene which we will use it in when Brian is walking down stairs. 

Our final tricky shot was Crash Zoom, we also found this shot tricky to achieve. This shot involves editing effects as well as filming the shot itself. We filmed this shot zooming into a light and out from a persons eye. This was a real success and it looked really good we will use a similar shot and effect in our film where the camera will zoom into the plug hole and out from Brian's eye. I used a cross zoom effect over the top of the two individual parts of film. This worked really well and this was the best tricky shot we successfully produced in our example film of tricky shots. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VP5jEAP3K4



This example is an example of a crash zoom, which we will use in our film. This example in phsycho uses a zoom in towards the women eye and to a zoom out from the plug hole where the blood is flowing down the tap. Between these individual parts of video they overlay a cross zoom video effect to complete the crash zoom shot.