The document discusses the use of shots in a video about a teenage boy grieving the death of a loved one. It analyzes the establishing shot, wide shots, long shots, close ups, tracking shots, over-the-shoulder shots, isolated shots, and closing shots used to represent the character's feelings and journey to terms with loss. Nature shots are used to exaggerate the character's emotions through pathetic fallacy. The video concludes with the character smiling, representing overcoming grief.

1. Use of shots analytical
aspects

2. Basic Story
A teenage boy who is upset about the death of the loved one. He is still coming
to terms with what has happened and throughout the video it is his personal
journey to the memorial bench whilst thinking things through.
Due to the structure of the video I have left the audience wondering as to
where or what the character is doing, I wanted to do this to leave a bigger
emotional response when we finally discover what his journey is for.
My main theme throughout the video is the link with nature and how the
weather/light represent that of the characters feelings.
The final shot of the video is the character finally looking up and coming to
terms with the death of a loved one and moving on in his emotional battle.
I used an emotional story of a death due to the relation to any audience
member.

3. Introduction of the Video
The establishing shot used
is that of a gloomy day to
immediately represent the
characters feelings this
works well with the music
throughout the video.
This is followed by the
use of many wide shots
of walking to
exaggerate distance.
Parallel to this the use
of long shots and close
ups of the weather also
set the scene of
isolation.

4. Tracking shots/over the
shoulder
Amongst other shots I felt
the tracking shot alongside
the over the shoulder
technique allow the
audience to connect to the
characters journey. As well
as this it also enhances the
theme of isolation.
The over the shoulder shot
gives the audience the
impression of following the
character on his journey,
but still holds the lonely
feel due from hidden from
the characters view

5. Nature shots
Pathetic Fallacy -The attribution of human feelings and
responses to inanimate things or animals,
From the start I have stated that
the surroundings of nature will
represent or exaggerate my
characters feelings.
The use of nature and the
autumn colours not only
represents the characters
feelings but also the lack of
humans shows his personal
journey in which he has to go
through himself.

6. Isolated shots/ use of long shots
Once more the isolated
shots are simply to show
how lonely the character is.
As spoken previously these
shots also show how his
battle is his own and has to
go through with him self.
Not only does it represent
my message but also shows
a change in location.
The destinations used also
make the video seem more
professional due to the
quality of them.

7. Closing shots
The final shots
finally reveals in
where the character
has been travelling
too.
The closing shot is that
of my character finally
looking up to the camera
in a positive way, the
smile represents how he
has finally overcome his
emotional journey and
come to terms with the
passing away of a loved
one

8. Overview
• Overall I am happy with the use of shots in which I have included. I
feel my initial story was matched due to the surroundings and the
vast variety of different shots used at the right times.
• Both the shot type and the area represent feelings and I feel that the
theme of nature to represent feelings has been put across
successful
• Overall I am happy with the success of the shots used as they not
only work well with the video but also show some beautiful poetic
shots which give the video an all round sense of a professional
video.