This is the first short film I made with three other people. Our plot was simple... a boy and girl madly in love, as a mafia gang mix up the parcels and deliver the package to the wrong person leaving the plot in an awful twist.
We worked using and trying different camera angles like that which we have studied from other films and clips. We tried pans, tilts, and even a little bit of hand held dollying which was a little shaky, but gave us a great idea of the types of shots available to our simple films. The shots were all interesting, getting some interesting shots, though what wasn't so good was the length of the shots. An example of this was the stairs shot, where I (Ewan Leslie) was seen walking up the stairs, where what we should have done was shot the start of me walking up the stairs and the end, which keeps the cutting short and interesting.
The editing was good, and my favorite camera angles and editing was the match on action of the opening door, which seemed clean and professional. However, my favorite scene of the over all short film was the opening, where the hostage gets his finger chopped off, as the low key lighting created chiaroscuro, and the extreme close up camera work on the hands and knife, along with the off putting music made the scene intense and exciting.
