Studying Media: A Cinematographer's Blog

1.  Our film represents the presence of corruption and betrayal in many systems across the world. The detective not finding the right culprit who committed the crime represents how easily people can be blinded by what they believe to be true. Finding the truth isn't easy, and many people in power abuse this ability to hide their true intentions. 2.  Our product engages with the audience through face paced, complex shots and scenes, where characters are frequently facing the camera. There are several close ups and fourth-wall breaks throughout our film, making it seem as though the audience is included in the story being told. Our film would be distributed as either a mystery-drama or crime-genre short film, likely not to a theater but to a smaller streaming platform, such as YouTube TV and Direct TV. 3.  Throughout the project, my ability to improvise definitely improved. My storyboard and shot list were not aligned, so while lining up shots I got to experiment with many ...

Hey again! We just recently finished our film, and it turned out amazing!  Getting the film down to 1 minute was definitely a struggle. We had to cut a lot more than I thought we would! Many of our originally planned scenes were scrapped because they made our film longer than it needed to be. Every millisecond of our film that we cut definitely made a difference, even if some parts of our film were very choppy afterward.  This is also a result of how we filmed the movie. Next time we'll be sure to use Premiere Rush instead of cinematic mode on the iPhone camera. The complications that came with the film quality, video transfers, and filming technicalities was not worth the aesthetic of the cinematic features. We were all very overwhelmed by how daunting this project was. Working with a larger cast and a broad storyboard and plot made some parts of our plan hard to follow and execute, making it so our second designated film day was our only day used to film majority of our movi...