CONSTRUCTION: ELEVATOR SCENES

 CONSTRUCTION: ELEVATOR SCENES 

In school Shooting: Elevator 

We are particularly pleased with the framing of this particular shot to show the evaluator is in line with the positioning Tom holding the cardboard box. I (the camera operator) set up this shot, very carefully. In order to position Tom in the centre of the frame, but trapped between tall/high walls, on the one hand and an elevator with iron bars that resemble a prison cell on the other. This connotes the path he is going towards/down (criminal, unhappy behaviour he is going down). Tom had the idea of using intensely angry and sad facial expressions to show the characters feelings about just being fired. 

The second scene we shot, was Tom being in the evaluator and me outside filming him going down. However, we encounter a lighting issue: which was that in the elevator there was only one light above Tom and the camera could not see his whole body in the frame. To solve this issue, I stood further away with the camera so we had outside lighting as well as the lighting inside the elevator. This created a clear balance of both lighting when I was moving the camera to pan down Tom (the main character).