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 For our Western Shootout we had both Jordi and Rob star in it with both having their own prop weapon.We choose to shoot all of the scenes on the field in the college grounds where we had a section surrounded by bushes which it was all shot.So far we have recorded each scene in our short film, with retakes of certain ones. Since Jordi was absent the next day we were unable to do any re-shoots. Pre-shooting each scene, we as a group had organised how we wanted each part of the scenes to work out. We had not put together a  storyboard of how it should have went but we had all agreed-ed beforehand how we wanted it to be shot. On the day we choose to film the scenes, Alex was our director and told Jordi and Rob how they needed to portray themselves in each scene, including ones in which we had close-ups of there face and eyes.  We scripted the scenes to follow the order of Jordi and Rob separately walking towards each other, following up with the pair bumping shoulders. this ...

In the clip from 'The Shining' we follow the character Danny from behind as he rides his big wheel through a series of corridors leading into a open space then continuing to ride through more corridors until he reaches the room labelled 237. The entirety of this part of the scene is shot with a stabiliser at knee height from behind Danny. But  once he reaches room 237, he stops where for a second or two he looks back at the door, the camera angle changes to a over the shoulder shot, (OTS), showing the rooms number. Immediately after this shot, the camera changes to a close up shot of Danny, showing some discouragement and unease while he stares at the door. It then switches back to another OTS shot of Danny staring at the door until cutting to a full shot of him as he stands up from his big wheel to approach the door. The camera shot moves from the full shot to a medium shot as he grows closer to the door, still staring at the doors number. For the last 20 seconds of the clip t...