When filming the bathroom scene, we had an idea for a shot where I stand in the shower and film whilst Mark walks in. There were streaks on the glass from the water, so by filming from the other side of this, it shows Sam is isolated, reiterating the theme of him being 'trapped'. However, there was a continuity error. In the second print screen, you can see that the right-hand door of the cabinet is open, yet when Mark goes to open it it is closed. However, even before this we were not sure if we should use this shot, so this error decided this for us.
As Sam walked in we found another distortion shot, which we could achieve through a frost glass panel in the living room that looks into the hall. However, we decided we would not use this as it was too distorting, and would result in disorientating the viewers.
Finally, we also used a shot where Sam was walking up the stairs, and the camera was viewing him through barriers. These signify isolation, as bars are seen as something that is physically trapping. However, again, we did not use this one as we wanted to keep it simple.
Another shot where we wanted to implement these theme of isolation was during the college scene. When we were looking for different locations where there was minimal background noise and good lighting we found a spot where there was a handrail that acted as a balcony to some stairs. We were going to use this as we thought if Ryan and James (Sam's friends), were one side of the handrail then Sam could stand on the other side. This physical barrier between them could then represent the metaphorical barrier that Sam feels with his friends, as he does not feel he can talk to them openly when he feels so trapped in his relationship. However, as we needed to use shot/ reverse shot for this scene to easily show the two sides to the conversation, as well as using lots of close ups of Sam's face to show his expression, we could not do this without breaking the 180 degree rule. As where we would have had to stand to get these close ups and mid shots, there were stairs that were really low down so we had nowhere to put the camera.
Another shot where we wanted to implement these theme of isolation was during the college scene. When we were looking for different locations where there was minimal background noise and good lighting we found a spot where there was a handrail that acted as a balcony to some stairs. We were going to use this as we thought if Ryan and James (Sam's friends), were one side of the handrail then Sam could stand on the other side. This physical barrier between them could then represent the metaphorical barrier that Sam feels with his friends, as he does not feel he can talk to them openly when he feels so trapped in his relationship. However, as we needed to use shot/ reverse shot for this scene to easily show the two sides to the conversation, as well as using lots of close ups of Sam's face to show his expression, we could not do this without breaking the 180 degree rule. As where we would have had to stand to get these close ups and mid shots, there were stairs that were really low down so we had nowhere to put the camera.
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