Framing a Shot: Practice with Stills

Today, Max, Emma & myself were tasked with going and taking a few stills using different camera angles, distances and effects/tools with the theme of creating a narrative. Emma was the protagonist and Max and myself were the antagonists and the narrative was depicted to be a chase of the protagonist by the antagonists.

First we used an establishing shot to set the scene of location we were creating the stills at.












We used an extreme close up of the protagonist to show her emotions which in this picture shows that she is worried or scared.

We used the protagonist at a mid shot relative to the background to show that she was emotional but also trying to escape the antagonists. We used a black and white effect as we were practicing with the camera.










The low angled shot was used to show how intimidating the protagonists were and to show how tall they were in relation to the background and surroundings.









The use of three different viewpoints of the antagonist Max made it show as if he had eyes everywhere. It also made it out to show that we were hunting for the protagonist which we were chasing in the narrative.




On the second picture we also used the "rules of thirds" technique to show the antagonist fully but to also show that he was leaning on the tree and searching for the protagonist.

The third one we created a shot behind the tree to make it look like the protagonist was hiding but could also see the antagonist who was looking for her.

We used the effect of leading lines to draw the audience to see that a chase was in action and that the protagonist was in front with the antagonist in close pursuit.

This image which shows the end of the chase and the protagonist trapped by the antagonists was used with the tool of "rule of thirds" which meant we could align the picture perfectly which showed everything that was happening in the end of the narrative.