During the week 5 tutorial, I had the chance to go out and try out a filming technique I had been intrigued by for a long time. Know we could film really any type of scene/shot we liked I took full advantage by looking at PoV shots in film. Though PoV shots have been used many times in cinema history, I wanted to look more specifically at PoV object-perspective shots, not people-perspective shots that was actually inspired from the hit AMC show Breaking Bad. What I mean by object-perspective is the PoV shot is not from a character’s view, but the view from an object in a room that characters are interacting with. However I foresaw many issues to set up a shot like this, plus what object I could fit a bulky camera in. But I thought of our class writing exercises to just practising filming simple tasks. So I saw an opportunity to use a glass wall as a door to film through, to film a person simply knock on a door. I used to locations, one to film the person from the outside knocking on a solid wooden door, while the second shot was the PoV shot from the other side of the glass door where the person came up and knocked on the glass in front of the camera. The PoV shot was to look like the camera was literally built into the door which was Breaking Bad inspired as I talked about in my previous post. The goal of the PoV shot was to intensify the scene by placing the audience right in the action of the scene and almost interacting with the character on screen. However some issues came through in my shooting after putting the scene together in post. The glass I used for the PoV shot was double layer glass, this caused a lot of lighting reflecting issues, so you could actually see me behind the camera. Through the semester I have been putting my shots together a lot better, but in terms of lighting I dropped the ball during this shoot. If I were to do it again, I would definitely be more careful setting up the lighting in my scene, making sure possible reflecting light off of the glass is dimmed as much as possible. Even getting a black sheet to put up could fix the issue. The thing that turned out great though was the heightened intensity of the PoV shot. It was clear when looking at my shot from the outside of the scene looking at the actor knock on the door in comparison to the PoV shot of the actor knocking on the camera and looking at the audience, that the tension was raised in the Point of View shot.