let this white boy and his camera shoot?

              BANGER SHOT ALERT!!! BANGER SHOT  ALERT!!! BANGER SHOT ALERT!!! 

(mise-en scene pt2: shots) 

We have a banger storyboard and we filmed

Said Banger Storyboard

With my very cool Sony A74 (thank u mom and dad), we filmed today. I'm genuinely very happy with how our shots turned out. In our research, we found that a lot of Westerns began very slowly, often with extreme longshots that faded into one another. We aimed to mimic that. The lighting was nothing short of heavenly, which gave us the opportunity for some insane shots that I am very proud of. 

Still from one of the long shots that

 begin our opening

Renn and I switched off filming (he filmed for the most part). I'll share some of the shots that I love. A lot of them are low angle shots we implemented to show a power imbalance of Emi character (now named Charlotte) over the man she killed. Some of the other ones I loved are shots where we had dirt or flowers in the foreground in focus, and the subejct (Charlotte) out of focus doing some sort of action. Keep in mind these are not color graded or edited so some of it might be a bit off.

                                                          Charlotte looks out over the horizon,       

                                                                      ready for what's next         

Charlotte plants a cross at the burial site

 

Charlotte ties the cross while standing over the dead body, projecting power

Charlotte buries the body. 

We focus on a flower in the foreground, contrasting life and death

Charlotte grits her teeth while digging

Shots are insane and so am I. I leave on Thursday for STN in Tampa. I will win. I will win. I do not like Christopher Columbus