Research and Planning: The Chase

The Chase

This is our practice video for our movie trailers. in our group we decided that our 'chase sequence' was going to be set in the past and have a war theme to it.
Mise En Scene
We didn't know before the lesson what we would be doing to we didn't get to choose costumes and makeup as well as setting but we managed to find some props for our video. So if we were to do this task again, we would try to find somewhere where there weren't cars around and we would change outfits to make it more realistic.
Sound
Our guns made sounds themselves so we didn't have to find as many gun shot noises as we had them already, but we did use sound effects to enhance the sounds of the gun. We also used a backing track for the full video to create tension. There were other sound effects added throughout the video to make the sequence look as professional as possible.
Editing
We edited the video a lot as we filmed it in different clips in order to get the effect we wanted. We added a effect to all of the clips called 'Sepia' this was to create the effect of it being in the past. We also added a sequence title at the beginning of the clip to make it look a little bit more like a trailer.
Cinematography
When filming the video we tried to get in a number of shots to show a variety of skills. We included a long shot, a master shot, a medium close up and more.

Positives
I think there was a number of positives to our video, for example the sound effects we added to add realism to the end product.


Negatives
There were lots of negatives to the video we created, mainly to do with the length. The 2 minute video we were meant to make, barely scraped by 1 minute so for future, I know that the length is crucial and filming more is better than filming less due to us being able to edit out bits that we don't need. 
I think whilst we was videoing the scene, we could have thought more about different shot types and angles because when we went to film it we forgot completely about being organized and including everything. In future I think we could have made a list of different things which we wanted to include to create which desired effect.
We didn't use any equipment to aid us during the video like a tripod, using this could have helped us to catch everything in the scene instead of losing bits because of the movement of the camera.
Another negative which i've already said is Mise En Scene. We could have included a lot more props, costumes and even a better setting to make the clip more realistic.