In this first picture, Leanette is walking through the school. A regular girl going on about her ordinary day, walking while texting her friends on her phone. We did a long shot so that you–the viewer–can see how calm she is in her own little world. Not a care in the world. However, we chose the hallways where there were no paintings since the lack of color around her would create an eerie feeling. In the whole of the upper floor of the main building, the hallways are covered with artwork from left to right, only leaving a few walls bare, which are in the very back–places that almost no one walks through unless for testing or if they’re ESOL. The bareness of the walls allow the viewer to think: “Why there? In such a barren hallway, when there are many more hallways that are covered in lively, colorful art pieces?”
This second picture is an over the shoulder shot, done so in 0.5x zoom so that the hallway would appear to stretch further and seem longer than it would normally. In this scene, you can see Victoria–the girl with the hoodie–holding a book with a knife on top. The over the shoulder shot was chosen for this scene because, in my opinion, it helps create more suspense and show how Leanette does not notice the danger following her through the barren hallway.
Till now, I’m not quite sure whether this third shot would be considered a close up shot or a two shot since the camera is close, but you can see both characters in the picture. In the left of the image, you can see a small portion of Victoria’s face and the murderous glint in her left eye. Victoria, here, hits Leanette in the head with the thick book with the intention to knock her out. In other words, moments before disaster.
In this fourth picture, it’s a two shot. You can see where the pictures cut off and start to stop to white. The blur of Victoria’s hand shows how this picture is taken just as she’s about to stab Leanette after attempting to knock her out, instead only being able to slam her against the wall. She has her hand over her mouth–originally to not let how Leanette kept laughing show in the pictures–but the person viewing this could interpret it as trying to get her to shut up and not give her away in her evil scheme to kill her. In my opinion, this was the shot that took us the most tries, as Leanette kept laughing every time Victoria pretended to stab her with our very obviously paper knife.
In this final picture, obviously, Victoria manages to stab Leanette and kill her with the paper knife. It was supposed to be an arial shot, but it’s not facing straight down enough to be considered one. I had to angle it slightly: one, we were in a hurry since we did this the day after we did the first four, and two, you could see my reflection on the ground taking the picture when I positioned the camera straight above them. Again, the both of them kept laughing trying to take this picture.
In my opinion, this project was super easy. Sure, we had to take the last picture a day after we took the other fourth. That was only a small setback though, a tiny hurdle to jump over. Overall, a piece of cake. We took a bunch of pictures, but that was just to have a wide selection of which ones were best to use for our project. We took a total of 35 pictures, I took a screenshot of my gallery and all the pictures we took, however, I cut it off at the top because I had other pictures in my gallery that I felt were unnecessary to keep in the screenshot. This project is about the five pictures and the process in taking them, not what’s in my gallery.
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