Camera Angles and Shots

In our music video we utilised a variety of camera angles to achieve different effects such as the confusion and paranoia and create disturbances within our video. We used a high angle shot as the girl walks down the stairs to show the audience is following her, or 'spectating' her as the lyrics of the song suggest. We decided not to include high or low angle shots as the subject was moving round so much, therefore we used the zoom feature on the camera to create a variety of shots and show the emotions on peoples faces as, was used in the video for Radio Ladio - Metronomy, where they use a variety of close up shots to focus on the musicians, however we use these to focus on our character, her paranoia and the world around her. Zoom was also used to focus on the main feature of our video the busicuit. We used many tracting shots which produced the idea of movement and once again anchored the idea of spectating. They also helped build up our characters insecurity and achieved the effect of our audience feeling uncomfortable. Close ups were used with the character holding the camera to show the emotion on her face and connote her paranoia, we contrasted this with a long shot with her walking under a bridge to add a variety of shots and create a distance from the character but also the close ups make you feel a connection with the character. When the protagonist was holding the camera as in the scene when she is running down the street away from the two males, the camera movement is jolty and moves as she runs creating a sense of realism in this not so realistic world. When we filmed her from behind, walking down the stairs the camera is not on a tripod and is hand held which creates a purposeful unsteady movement, creating a sense of voyeurism, anchoring the feeling that you are following this character as she walks round a world of paranoia. When our character wa running away from the hooded boy in the alley way we deliberatly filmed this with a slight tilt to create a sense of vunrability as she is trying to run away from the immediate danger. Point of view shots were used as the character looked out of the window of the coffee shop to see two people sat at a table eating biscuits, which gives an insight into why the character is so unerved and allows the audience to view the things she is seeing from her point of view, changing the spectator status for that moment in time.