Blog Post #5: Preliminary Exercise

Preliminary Exercise

In this shot I chose to use this shot to show a dog waiting, upset by the huge eyes and the focus on the dog's face, rather than focus on background elements. I placed a laptop on the side to develop an idea on the dog is waiting for their owner, and I used the bed to show that he was comfortable in this room, just felt like he was missing something. I did this at an upper angle to make the dog look smaller and more afraid. I could improve on this shot by darkening the lighting a little bit but putting filler light on the face of the dog to show a clearer focus.

In this shot I use a focus shift to show a kind-of torn-up and exposed room. This shows a sign of aggression/laziness to the scene. It also shows that the room was lived in and used recently, with all the stuff still being out and looking newly used. Also, this is at a downward focus to show the items, rather than the more upper objects. I did a Pan shot to show the whole desk, and to make sure to shift the focus at the end onto a more messed up looking closet. This sets in an unorganized look, and shows the person/people that live here are not clean. 

In this shot I used a horizontally aimed shot to perform the look of the dad sitting there, not performing any task that are looking like they need to be done in the messy-looking house. It also shows that he is very ignorant to his surroundings, as the fill light of the phone shows the man's focus is his phone and not his surroundings. While I added the dirty looking atmosphere, with the clothes to show that he lives in this house with multiple people, so it makes sure that the audience might assume that their family.

This shot is taken from farther away, so that it shows that the dog's focus and that it shows that he is sitting at the door. His whine in this scene expresses that the dog is sad at the door, and which from there the audience could assume that he is missing someone. While the dog being in a pink room makes the audience assume that it could be his girl owner that he misses. The shadows also make sure that the dog is surrounded by shade to show a focus on him, it also puts a focus on him because his is in the middle of the shot (Rule of Thirds).

I could improve on my usage of lighting throughout my videos; I also could use better atmospheres for my shots.