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Trailer2.mp4This is the trailer to my final product. This was presented at the Night of the Arts.
Through meetings with my mentor, I learned more effective framing with my shots.
This was my first interview. Several subtle mistakes were made: The back-lighting is over-exposed, due to a lack of frontal lighting; The participant is not properly focused on, creating a fuzzier and less clear image; As my mentor showed me, there are piles of letters surrounding the interviewee, that have nothing seemingly to do with the actual interview. Now, to the eye of an audience, these issues may not be abundantly clear, but their focus on this interviewee's story will still be (subconsciously) impacted. *This is a screenshot of the video, which has been blurred through Google's shoddy image rendering, please excuse the inaccurate gainyness of this and potentially other images.
This shot worked better, because the subject was in focus, and the colors were more eye-catching. The subject's blue shirt contrasts well with the red of the flower and the flower pot, bringing the audience's eye to the center of the frame. My mentor believed this was a good step, but brought my attention to the background lighting, which has been a little blown out and created a grey look on the speaker's face. I'd be careful to include front-lighting to combat this later on.
This shot is an improvement in terms of lighting: the curtains are drawn to dampen outside light and reduce blurry outlines past the window; the subject was positioned next to a window that was out of frame so as to directly light his face, while remaining hidden. The only error I take with this shot is that throughout the video, the subject leans forward and his forehead cuts out of frame. This wasn't a mistake I could've easily seen coming, but I do wonder if I could have zoomed out to fix it - but perhaps the camera was too close to do that.
This shot was slightly more meticulously planned. I planted a cow in the background, to hint at the subject's ethos as a dairy farmer. There wasn't much to do about lighting, it was late and I hadn't brought any light source, but I think it creates an interestingly warm atmosphere, that breaks up the previous collection of coldly lit (albeit more subtly saturated) shots. The dark lighting let the picture become grainy if not in focus, so I gave the focus a more manual touch, adjusting the focus in response to the subject's movements.
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