Shots I Like

I LOVE the composition and lighting here. The way the sun flares looks amazing.  This shot was taken on the shoot I wasn't at and I'm not affraid to say I'm jealous of the gorgeous locations and lighting.

This was a spontaneous shot on the day of our first shoot way back when. Just before we packed up and left our first (secret) location, I noticed the beer can and I thought a quick pull focus would fit with everything else we'd filmed. Fortunately a kind little ant decided to walk across the can as I filmed, it was too perfect.

This close up of Hamish's eyes looks great, and the way we edited it he looks down at the photo in his hands exactly on the beat. Completely accidental but brilliant.

Two of many shots that were reversed. The top one where Hamish walks out of the room (or into the room...?) we edited the colours slightly to add more contrast and saturation to the shots of the 'party' in the room. This was both to add to the contrast of emotions and locations, as it was because the shots were badly lit.

A high angle tracking shot was never going to be easy, however nice it sounded on paper. It took us many, many attempts but we got it, after making our actors run backwards and forwards several times and us taking it in turns to run after them, camera aloft. I love the final one shot, the way the actor and camera weave around trees is very visually engaging, I wish we'd planned more tracking shots into the video, the movement is gorgeous with the song we chose.

 

Finally, this is ironically one of the first things we filmed. While Sancha talked through what we planned to do with the actors on the day and took some still digital photos on location, I went around cradling the camera like a child made of glass and weaved about the place, hoping to get some nice looking cutaways and the shot we'd storyboarded in of the camera tracking forwards through some tall grass. I set the focus to very close to the camera itself (similar to a macro focus) in an effort to create something very visual.

I'd like to think I succeeded.