This is gonna be a long one.... This blog post will be all about my creative decisions within the movie and their justifications in my mind. Camera placement and shooting The camera was obviously handheld by the actors for the duration of filming, and I gave them some slight leeway to do as they saw fit with the angles. If they did anything I didn't approve of, we did another take and I gave them some pointers. Most of the shots, with the exception of one, were filmed in landscape rather than portrait mode. Portrait mode gave a little variation, and I was able to play around with the shot in editing. I rotated the clip so it is seen sideways, sort of like a dutch angle to imply the madness and chaos to come later. Editing On the cutting room floor, I got my creative juices flowing. I decided to use a VCR overlay throughout the entire opening to emphasize the homemade footage aspect as well as the early 2000s time frame. The Pauses and Plays and Stops are at different times,...
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