Planning Cinematography- Miss Miller

When our group is planning to film our opening scene, we have planned the different cinematography and camera shots we will use within our scene. Planning the cinematography allows for our group to film easily and know where to place the camera at different points within the scene. 

The importance of cinematography within films is key, different angles of what is happening along with effective editing produces and excellent sequence. Cinematography gives different views of what is happening making the film more enjoyable to view, and in some points within thriller films, more scary for the audience as the camera angle presents to us an uncomfortable image.

The first use of cinematography in which we will use in our scene is the use of a high angled shot when the girl is in the kitchen. We have chosen to use this high angled shot here as it shows the girl smaller than she is which portrays to the audience that she is in danger and that something bad may happen to her. We hope that this shot will portray the girl to be vulnerable in her surroundings and ultimately portray her to be the victim. High angled shots are conventional to the thriller genre as it presents characters to be smaller than they are creating a mysterious tension within the film. The high angled shot will help the audience to build a relationship with the girl as we feel on edge for her and we ultimately feel scared on her behalf. The audience will also begin to feel uncomfortable for her also as we are unsure of what may happen next within the scene. We have decided to include a high angled shot in order to provoke emotions from the audience, such as fear and worry, making them more engaged within the sequence.

The second cinematography shot in which we will be using is the use of a long shot. We will use this when, again, the girl is in her kitchen, dancing oblivious to what is happening in her surroundings. Within the long shot, we are able to see all of her body and her surroundings. As her surroundings is the household enviornment, this gives the scene a sense of reality. This will ultimately portray fear within the film as we begin to believe it could happen to us and again making the girl seem extremely vulnerable and victimized. It will portray enigma as we are unable to know what may jump out at her at any point making the scene more thrilling. Long shots are conventional to the thriller genre as the characters are made to seem vulnerable, increasing the fear as we are unable to know what may happen. The use of the the long shot here will help the audience build a relationship with the girl as we feel on edge for her, hoping that nothing bad will happen to her. 

Another cinematography element we will be using is point of view. Using point of view in our scene will help portray fear and suspense. As we are doing the point of view from the killers perspective, this will create horror within the film as we are able to see everything in which the killer can see, this ultimately makes the audience believe that they are taking part within the film. Therefore, we hope that this will portray fear and a sense of relaisation to the audience and they begin to begin to sit on edge. Point of View shots are conventional to the thriller genre as they make the audeience believe they are taking part and this increases the thrill and suspense. The use of the point of view shot within the opening scene will allow for the audience to build their relationship with the character. The audience will primarily feel scared for the girl within the house, and hope that she will survive as we believe she is innocent because of the way.

We we also have use of zooming in and zooming out in which is another cinematography element. We will be zooming in to the girl when she is dancing in her kitchen. Zooming in and moving towards the girl creates importance and draws our attention to her and we are fully focused on her. Zooming out creates distance and detatchment to what is happening. We will be zooming out from the boyfriend when he gets killed, this will create emotion for the audience as we feel uncomfortable to what we are seeing.  Zooming in and zooming out from certain objects are conventional to the thriller genre. Zooming in allows for the object or character to be focused on creating suspense and horror.