DepicT video textual analysis

We got a task to make a 90 second short film. So we came up with the idea of four people sitting on a bench but we tried to make it look like one of the four people was a out cast but actually he's a ghost and you find that out at the end of the short film.

At the start of the short film we have it so it comes in from black and at the end of the last clip it fades out to black. We did this because it makes the short film look more professional and smoother.

The first shot of our short film is a following shot of the charters walking over to the bench that is the location where we filmed. I really like this shot because it opens the start of the film really nicely with out jumping straight in to the dialog. 

The next two shots uses a match on action shot of the characters sitting down on the bench, this shot is also a establishing shot of the bench. We also use this shot to display the title of the short film above the characters. 

This pan shot came out really nicely because when the other person starting talking the camera moved straight away to look at them.

I really like this close up of the character Toby laughing because it really brings out the expression on Toby's face and makes you feel like you're there instead of watching it on a screen. 

I really like how we made the character James fade away like a ghost, we did this by filming the scene with the character in it and then filming in the exactly same spot but without the character there. When editing we just put the clip of James over the video of the bench and just faded out the clip of James.

This medium shot i thought came out really nicely because of the lighting of the shadows of the tree. I think this gives the clip a really nice feel to it. We also make the shot so all the people where in the shot apart from the character 'James' who's a ghost. 

I really like this wide shot because it's really showing that the character 'James' is being left out the group and really brings the story together.

Through out the whole short film we only used ambient lighting this worked out find because on the days we filmed it was quite sunny. We also added sound affects of trees moving in the wind and birds whistling, We did this to cover up some of the grainy background sound.