PRACTICE OTS
Here our 10 specific shots used to make a good Opening Title Sequence:
(LJ)
- Off Kilter - Where you're filming the victim at an angle to let the audience know that something is not right.
- Over The Shoulder shot of the killer. - The camera is behind the Killer's shoulder as the Killer is watching the Victim.
- Close Up on weapon. - A close up filming the Killer holding the weapon
- Close up/extreme close up of fear. - A shot of the victim face only, showing their fear.
- 360 degree shot to show isolation/fear. - The camera is walked around the victim showing how alone and scared they are.
- High angle shot to show victim's vulnerability. - Where camera is much higher than the victim showing how innocent they are.
- Low angle shot to show the power of the killer. - The camera has to be on the ground pointing up to the killer showing the audience how powerful the killer is.
- How to stab someone without hurting them. - The camera is at an angle so the audience believe the victim is being stabbed when in fact the killer is stabbing the ground, next to the victim.
- Point of view of victim an killer as victim crawls away on their back and killer approaches. - a sequence of shots flipping back and forth from the victim to the killer.
- Use the power of suggestion. - Showing that that killer is more dominant than the victim.
(LJ)
Practice Opening Title Sequence
(LJ, NG, TA)
Here is our practice example of a Opening Title Sequence using the 10 shots above. Our first shot was a shot an off kilter shot of the victim to show to the audience who the victim was and to let the audience know that something isn't right. If we were to do this again we would place the camera so that the victim was more central, however we do not feel that we need to angle the camera any differently. Our second shot was over the shoulder of the killer watching the victim to show to the audience that there is a killer without revealing who it was. We believe that if this was to be shot again then the camera should be placed on a tripod so the shot is still. The third shot was a 360 degree angle of the victim showing fear and if this was to be shot again we decided that we would speed it up and make sure the camera was still so the shot isn't as up and down. Next we did a close up of the weapon. We think this was a good shot and if filming it again we wouldn't need to change anything. In the fifth shot we shot a close up of the victims fear, this was to show the audience that the victim is scared. We decided that if this shot was to be filmed again that the victim shouldn't look at the camera.. The sixth shot included a high angle shot of the victim walking along the trees to show the victims innocence. As a group we all thought this was a good shot and we couldn't improve on it if we were to film it again. Our seventh shot included a low angle shot to show the power of the killer. if this shot was to be filmed again we felt we can't improve on it. We included a scene on how to stab someone so the audience believe the victim was stabbed. If we were to shoot this scene again we thought that the camera should be placed in a different way so the stab looks more realistic. We didn't include a back and forth shot of the victim and killer and so if we filmed this again we would need to include it to make our Opening Title Sequence better. Our final two shots were to show the power of suggestion, with the killer walking away and the victim clenching the ground to show weakness. We thought that these were good shots and showed the purpose well so we wouldn't need to improve these any further. We also, decided to use this effect on our practice Opening Title Sequence because it added a spooky and horror like effect on our OTS. The sound also went with this, however if we were to re-edit or re-film it we would choose different backing sounds that suited the OTS more.
(LJ)
(LJ)