HULK SMASH - Working out camera angles with toys :)

As we were running out of time i had to start thinking about camera's so i wrote up a lot of shots we could use and used the time sheet i had made easier to make a good guess at how long each shot would be and what shots would be best to use. Here's the camera shots i worked out from my head. 

I thought that with a visual aid we would get a better idea of what we wanted and how we wanted the story to be told through the camera. So i grabbed some toys and set up a quick draft scene of the mountains and where abouts things would be for timing etc...

Here's pics of all the shots i took and whilst i was doing this was referring back to the written shots above all the time. 

It helped so much when i came to doing cameras as i already had all of this in my head ready to go. 

Wide shots to begin with so that we could see the scenery created and show just how small mammoo and the igloo were in comparison 

as mammoo walked around the igloo to his fishing equipment we see a close up of his face and or body.

I also thought a good shot may be an over the shoulder one as mammoo was walking towards the dreaded fishing hole 

i obviously couldn't show this one clearly but this is the underwater shot. I am definitely going to put this one in, then the audience will wonder what it is under the water which will create a great sense of suspense  Then BOOM! the robot jumps out. 

 tug tug

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possibly a birds eye view of the ice crack if we have time?

two shots here showing the size in comparison to mammoo and the robot. This will create a sense of intimidation and should be a great shot to include. 

if we have time we should incorporate the lock on screen in after effects into the camera shot 

(don't think at this stage we have time though)

pan back to see both of them to show size comparison again. 

I really like the two shots above over the shoulder shots again.

If all else fails and we run out of time a stop shot of the robots foot crushing mammoo would be great, in this shot i want to get the camera on the ground focused on the robots foot possibly from mammoo's angle. 

the fish jumps out. 

FIN 

:)