60 second sequence that contains either tension, anger or romance

The film i created is based around the high pace adrenaline sport Parkour which is mixed with athletics and gymnastics, my team and I thought that for someone to perform moves around the college as he was late to a lesson and needed to rush. We thought this would make for a high tension film as a wrong move can mean a ruined sequence or even injury to the performer. We wanted to get a variety of shots that would match our high tension film however were limited due to the location of the film being inside our busy campus, the shots also allowed for our film to be more interesting to viewers.

At the beginning of the film we see our main role run down the hallway, he begins to run behind close doors so that it when it opened showing him running towards the camera. We thought this would be a good way to begin the film as the quick shot of him running towards the camera would create intrigue to the audience and suspense over what will happen next.


The next scene we see in the character jump down a set of stairs from a camera angle slightly below the set of stairs so that the audience doesn't know where the character will land. The fact he jumps down the stairs suggests that the character is in the rush to be somewhere also adding to the developing tension.



In this shot we lowered the tripod to be at level with the roll, we did this for two reasons. The first reason the first being that we thought it would be more effective if the tripod was at the level to make the roll seem more dramatic as it was the only thing in shot, another reason we did this was to add more action into our film as it is about Parkour.




The next shot I will be talking about is the scene in which the audience can see that the character is running out of two lots of doors in into the outside, we thought this would add this because it gives a variety in our scene options, not making it too boring for the audience. I also added this scene because we see him burst through doors instead of skipping from one scene to the next in my editing.


Our finale shot is outside, we thought this was a good destination to end in as it shows the character running from one place to another, giving the film a purpose. We decided to shot from this angle as we could shot him running to the pole and then into it, giving the ending some context, after running into the pole the camera was in a good enough angle allowing the audience to see the facial expression of the character as the film ends.


On reflection I would have added context to him being late, like pans to a clock or him visually rushing before the parkour began as I can sympathise with being an audience member that would be confused by the film beginning straight into action which is why, if we had enough time I would have wanted to do. However this was supposed to be a short film, therefore i am happy with the film as it fits the brief and our initial plans for the film.

Finale film