This is a new idea I had because I came by a location I thought would make for a really creative shoot. The inside of a car and the aesthetics it can produced became of real intrigue to me. I also saw a scene that was filmed inside a car and I thought this is something I’d love to attempt. The action of being on a phone and being frustrated could be paired with waiting in a car and I really wanted to try to film this and use this as a scene in my final assessment. Again I want the scene to be at night and use the interior car lighting as well as the phone lighting, but for the initial test shoot I’ve shot in the daytime.

Florence + the Machine has featured in a film by Vincent Haycock called The Odyssey, that is filmed really beautifully and has scenes located within a car. I’ve tried to model a few of my shots in the same way. Another shot film called Hip Hip Hooray has scenes within a car that I found inspiring, they were filmed at night and in black and white which i found added another element to it. Again I tried to film my scene in ways similar these two other films did.

(Hip Hip Hooray 2016)

(The Odyssey 2016)

This is my test shoot in the interior of a car. I’ve used Sean as the actor and “frustration” as the emotion. I found quite fun filming the car as it was a smaller space they had less within it, but forced me to notice more within it. Again the lighting is different but i focused on the framing of each shot and what I wanted to show, working out different angles and positions. Some of these shots are quite ugly in my opinion but overall I liked using this space.

I did a second edit of this scene with the use of text and sound. The point of it highlighting more emphasis on the actual communication element and seeing what the actor sees. However I don’t like it as much. I feel like it takes away from the acting and shows audiences more than they need to see. There is no element of mystery and intrigue, its just laid out on the table and audiences are told what to think. I think for my other shoots I will leave the communication of the “story” or “action” to the actor rather than the text on screen.