Independent research into close ups

Research into close ups

We plan on making our opening title sequence mainly out of a montage of close ups, consisting of the people, objects and the room. Therefore I decided to research how to make close ups effective and eye catching. 

This is a video I found on 'The Art of the Close Up'.

I found this very useful as it tells us what to do in order for the character to come across in a certain way and how the audience reacts. 

One of the most interesting things I took away from this video was how important the eyes are in presenting the status and emotion of the character, for example when a character blinks a lot it could indicate them being nervous. So therefore to present a character as high status or powerful you would film a close up of them not blinking, you would also have them raise their eyebrows and widen their eyes to make them look more dominant

These are the aspects that were said to be important in filming close ups. So when doing closeups I think we could include repetition by having glitches, which show different parts of the room and repeat important aspects to draw attention to them. I think that a good way to show repetition is that it could keep cutting back to a close up of a clock ticking to show time running out etc.

Therefore Showing close ups of the person carrying out the autopsy and their eyes would communicate their emotions to the audience very well and show a lot of their intentions just from looking at their eyes. I think this will be very useful in thinking about the characters intentions and therefore planning out the rest of our scene. 

I think that the timing in our scene is very important, as the time we spend on each close up will create different atmospheres. For example if we have the close ups very long and drawn out it will create tension and leave the audience on edge. But if we have very short glitchy close ups, it will make it more unpredictable and scary as they do not know what will happen next. We could have some long close ups on certain things which would make the audience uncomfortable, for example cutting the skin or a needle.

I think that we can use a lot of the ideas of close ups stated in this video in our ideas and it will help us with inspiration.