Hand Held Shots

in clip one you can see we have used a hand held camera technique and made it shake a little
to emulating an independent ‘lo-fi’ style cinema and using this style of cinematography to almost make the audience feel like the main charcter does just after he has taken the overdose, the can't see straight everything is moving as his brains and body begin to slow and stop working along with his vision becoming haze. In the end clip when he dies the camera also shakes this is to show how his body has finally given up and collapsed also that his spirt is some how leaving him causing the camera to shake a little it helps show something is happening that you can not visually see but hopefully the audience will feel this serial presents.

This technique can be seen in the two horror films 'Blair witch prodject' and 'paranormal activity' the hand held camera can make the audience feel like they are more connected to the characters and makes them see the scene from the characters personal perspective. It also give a realistic documentary feel to the scene.







A film like Festen which deliberately uses “raw” techniques (part of the Dogme 95 series) your film has that raw and personal feel to it for the moments taking place in the present.



The flashbacks you use are more fluid. (A great binary opposite for good times and bad, past times and present.)



the camera and film used differs according to different scenes in the film. The camera work acts almost like we shouldn’t be there.