Planning Cinematography - Miss Miller

Cinematography is important within films because it makes the audience feel different types of emotions due to the different types of cinematography. Also, without cinematography the film is unable to portray hidden messages and convey the characters emotions towards the audience. Planning is required to produce excellent scenes because it helps the director to visualise the scene before filming it. This is helpful because it helps directors to see if scenes are good enough to film.

An over the shoulder shot/Shallow focus will be used in our opening sequence when the audience see the antagonist getting ready in the mirror. This shows the audience that he wants to be hidden from the world as the shallow focus is blurring out his face keeping his identity hidden. This is conventional to the thriller genre because there is a creation of an enigma, which is common to the thriller genre as it leaves the audience questioning what might happen next. This helps the audience build a negative relationship with the antagonist because they can foreshadow something sinister and bad will happen in the future. The audience will also dislike the antagonist because they are unsure of who is under the mask, which only makes them want to know more.

A close up will be used in our opening sequence, this is evidential when the audience watch the victim running and looking back at the antagonist. This shot will be used to show the facial expression of fear and vulnerability on the females face allowing the audience to infer that something bad will happen to her. This is conventional as it builds up suspense and tension as the audience question whether the female victim will survive or not, which then allows the audience to feel scared for her. This helps the audience build a relationship with the female victim because they sympathise for her as they know she may be on the verge of death. She is also a female and of a young teen age, thus the young female audiences will be able to relate to her. 

The panning shot will be used in our opening sequence, this is evident when the audience see the chase scene with the antagonist chasing after the female victim. The panning shot shows how much effort she is putting in, in order to escape from the antagonist, the audience can infer from this that she is feeling petrified and very vulnerable as she could be seconds away from death. This creates suspense as they are unsure about if the antagonist will murder the victim or not, this also creates escapism for the audience as they escape their real life problems as they worry about the female victim's. This helps the audience build a relationship with the female victim because they feel apologetic towards her because she has been a target of an unfair murder. It is also very conventional to the thriller genre because it shows the differentiating power between the two, the female being the weaker. 

The high angle/point of view shot can seen by the audience when the female victim falls on the floor and the antagonist is looking and standing over her. This shot was used to show the positioning of the characters, the audience can see that the victim is on the floor and the antagonist is standing over her, they can infer from this that the antagonist is overpowering the victim making her look weak and inferior. This creates tension as they patiently wait to see if the antagonist will do anything to the female victim this also helps build suspense because the audience are worried for the victim. This helps the audience build a relationship with the female victim because they fear for her as they forebode something bad to happen later on in the film.

Lastly, deep focus will be seen by the audience when the antagonist is watching the female victim from a distance and she is unaware of it. This shows the audience that the victim is weak and very vulnerable because the audience can infer that the antagonist is targeting an easy target. The shot also shows the foreground background and middle ground clearly which exaggerates the fact that the female is vulnerable because she is lonely. This creates tension as they wait to see if the antagonist will try to do something or if he will leave her. This also creates suspense because the audience can see from the deep focus all the areas where the victim is vulnerable. This causes the audience to become scared for the victim's safety, which is conventional because it leaves the audience questioning what will happen next. 

To conclude, I think that by having these camera shots will help engage and entertain the audience because it makes them feel an array of emotions which ultimately keeps them hooked onto the film trying to guess what might happen next. Planning this has helped the group and I a lot as now we know how to use a different variety of camera shots to make the audience feel different emotions. Also it saves us a lot of time figuring out whether it will be conventional or not as from this task we have visualised how the scene will look and know that it will be conventional and appealing to the audience.