Cupboard Experimentation - Laura

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g0aKORR9GI&context=C3f6f291ADOEgsToPDskIsC7Ky5TcFl4sJE-BtnI6L

This is one of the hardest shots that we will do during our scene in the house, so we decided to do a test for it at college so that we know exactly what we are doing on the day of filming.
When watching this as a group, we had disagreements as to which clip we liked the most. Kei and Meg liked the first one, as it was a close up, but it showed the shouldhers, therefore clearly portraying the action and expression. However, Charlie liked the second clip, as she felt that it was good to clearly portray her emotion within the big close up. On the other hand, I liked the last one, as the zoom to the extreme close up created dramatic tension as her eyes are what portrays the most emotion. I also asked Andrew, the media teacher, as he is fully aware of the criteria for Thriller openings. He also liked the last clip, and he agreed that zooming in created more of a connection with the character, also creating more suspense.
As we are all in disagreement, we also thought it would be good to ask our audience which type of shot we should use, as they are who we are targeting.
The lighting was hard to control within this experiment, as we had to stay in the same room with the same overhead light. I think the lighting from above worked really well, because the high key lighting conforms to her high class life, as it is portrayed as this perfect life, and so the low key lighting would not represent this. However, we shall need to be careful with the type of lighting that we use, as the light above made the shot very low quality, taking away the realism.