Similar product research 8 - Shot types and lighting techniques

Birdy – Skinny Love

This shot of her silhouette in front of a bright window would work well with our video as it may show her having no identity to begin with as she finds herself. It is easily done too, all we need is a window.

I like the way this shot fades in and I think we could do it.

These would be the kind of extreme close-up shots we would use, dark, and the artist hardly looking into the camera as I feel it fits our song and mise en scene ideas better.

We could easily achieve a close-up pull focus shot like this one.

This shot fades out by the brightness gradually increasing until it’s white and then cuts. We could use this effect on final cut pro x.

This shot of her walking over broken glass is easily done and symbolises a lot of things however the target audience interprets it. According to David Morley, an audience theorist, the TA should receive this in the preferred reading response. This is the reading which the media producers (me) want the audience to receive.

I think this technique of repeating a shot from two different angles/ distances works really well especially when it cuts on the beat. It could symbolise lost time or time slowing down which again would work well with our lyrics and genre.

The song we have decided to use starts with two piano keys, so we were thinking of using a shot similar to this one.

Here there is a change in setting, a low shot of someone walking through a woodland area. As we live in a rural area there are many close-by places we could film which look like this.

They have used another out-of-focus shot and it has been over-cranked which we could easily do on final cut.

The final shots darken to black with is a much less harsh cut, we may use cuts like this.