SMASH!

We were out taking shots again and this time we had all our props that we needed in order to shoot the POV shot. As I explained in my last post this shot was supposed to capture Darren (Ed Sheeran) Drinking, passing out and smashing the bottle. The whole motive of this shot was once again to associate with the specific lyrics of the song. This is something that we plan to have running through the whole video.

In this part of the song the lyrics quote "This drink is a liver killer, my chest is a pillow for your weary head to lay to rest". The shot was to capture Darren passing out from the effects of the alcohol and ending up with a shot of his head resting on the concrete pavement. This shot was supposed to capture what the song was saying in video footage. When actually attempting to shoot this we realised that when we did tried to do a POV shot it didn’t look very good at all. This is because to achieve this shot we had to make the camera do what our main character is believed to be doing and so we spun the camera 36o degrees for the desired effect of our main character spinning round. After this we tipped the tripod in a downwards motion so that the camera was essentially falling.

When we looked at this footage on the camera we realised that everything just looked blurry. We believed that die to the quality of the camera, it couldn’t pick up all the details of the surroundings when spinning around. This meant that everything just looked like one big blur with no clear imagery. Because of this we decided that we wouldn’t do a POV shot and instead just use a normal close up shot to capture the story and actions that we were trying to portray.