The Technique Of The Shot

The particular shot I have chosen to analyse is the one at the very end of the chosen clip, right before the opening credits. A series of practical and visual effects will need to be completed, namely the integration of text and moving visuals which are effects which are generally dealt with after the initial shoot. The matter at hand now stands with that daunting set extension:

Before this shot is revealed, the room appears substantially smaller, which means that when setting this shot up we will have to move locations. The idea of using a spacious village hall has been talked about, in which we can use a smaller space within the hall to shoot the initial segments and then move onto the bigger space once it comes to shooting this shot. Props can be moved around and it can therefore be made to look like the same space initially before panning out to reveal more.

There is the issue with the amount of technology we have at our disposal, for example the current dolly tracks we are allowed to use do not stretch far enough, and also you would be able to see them in frame as it pans out. The solution to this is to, rather than use a dolly track, to use one of these:

Tripods can be attached to one of these and they glide relatively smoothly across a floor (a slight bump in a moving shot can be fixed with the Warp Stabiliser tool on Premiere Pro).

The clip (shown in the previous post) ends with the camera swooping over the sofa to reveal Knives and Neil, silhouetted, watching the band's performance. Because the use of a camera crane (the technique used for this shot in Scott Pilgrim) is not within our grasp at the moment, additional footage of two silhouetted figures will have to be shot against a green screen, or a JPEG image taken of two people on a sofa, the background replaced with green and then it be integrated into the final shot via chroma keying and key framing.

These initial techniques will hopefully be a cost effective way of replicating the shot, at least in terms of practical effects. Visual effects come later.