Use of shots analytical aspects

Basic Story

A teenage boy who is upset about the death of the loved one. He is still coming to terms with what has happened and throughout the video it is his personal journey to the memorial bench whilst thinking things through.

Due to the structure of the video I have left the audience wondering as to where or what the character is doing, I wanted to do this to leave a bigger emotional response when we finally discover what his journey is for.

My main theme throughout the video is the link with nature and how the weather/light represent that of the characters feelings.

The final shot of the video is the character finally looking up and coming to terms with the death of a loved one and moving on in his emotional battle.

I used an emotional story of a death due to the relation to any audience member.

Introduction of the VideoThe establishing shot used is that of a gloomy day to immediately represent the characters feelings this works well with the music throughout the video.

This is followed by the use of many wide shots of walking to exaggerate distance. Parallel to this the use of long shots and close ups of the weather also set the scene of isolation.

Tracking shots/over the shoulder

Amongst other shots I felt the tracking shot alongside the over the shoulder technique allow the audience to connect to the characters journey. As well as this it also enhances the theme of isolation.

The over the shoulder shot gives the audience the impression of following the character on his journey, but still holds the lonely feel due from hidden from the characters view

Nature shotsPathetic Fallacy -The attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals,

From the start I have stated that the surroundings of nature will represent or exaggerate my characters feelings.

The use of nature and the autumn colours not only represents the characters feelings but also the lack of humans shows his personal journey in which he has to go through himself.

Isolated shots/ use of long shots

Once more the isolated shots are simply to show how lonely the character is.

As spoken previously these shots also show how his battle is his own and has to go through with him self.

Not only does it represent my message but also shows a change in location.

The destinations used also make the video seem more professional due to the quality of them.

Closing shots

The final shots finally reveals in where the character has been travelling too.

The closing shot is that of my character finally looking up to the camera in a positive way, the smile represents how he has finally overcome his emotional journey and come to terms with the passing away of a loved one

Overview

• Overall I am happy with the use of shots in which I have included. I feel my initial story was matched due to the surroundings and the vast variety of different shots used at the right times.

• Both the shot type and the area represent feelings and I feel that the theme of nature to represent feelings has been put across successful

• Overall I am happy with the success of the shots used as they not only work well with the video but also show some beautiful poetic shots which give the video an all round sense of a professional video.