Planning For Shot List

 One of my roles as editor is to create a shot list. The cinematographer presented me her shot inspiration from movies and episodes she watched to help me grasp where she wanted the location of the cuts and how to establish the shot list.

This over the shoulder shot was said to be used as the main character is getting confronted by the cast and backstage workers. To compliment this shot there would be an extreme close up of the main characters facial expression and then a POV shot that would show the faces of the people confronting him. Even though this breaks the 180 rule, in post production we had an idea to invert the image to keep each character on the side they were shown.

The next shot was two characters from the film "Ocean 11" leaning into the rule of thirds lines which embraces their relationship. This scene is showing them ask their rich associate for the money, and the main characters are on the left and right side of the rule of thirds lines with the associate in the middle. This shows they are applying pressure to her so she will go along with their plan. This scene exemplifies how framing can tell a story. The plan for this shot was to have someone from the cast to pressure the main character to continue playing along with the sitcom.

This scene is from Citizen Kane. The message of this clip is conveyed through tonality. I was told when the main character is in the 80s production, the lighting will be extremely bright and grainy with a generic sitcom look. This will create a generally cheerful setting as the people that kidnapped the main character keep the false reality, real to him alone. The scene is supposed to get darker as the main characters begins to realize truth. This juxtaposition of light and dark will show a sort of binary opposition of real and fake. 

After watching Citizen Kane and doing more in-depth research, I learned the use of this tonality is called chiaroscuro. That is extreme contrast between light and dark, or extreme contrasting colors. We are planning on implementing this into our film by but for now we are going to find high contrasting colors for me to use further down the foundation portfolio.