Coop Shots from below

Another idea that we had had was to shoot to Bella from below the building, to show the disruption that she may of caused to other passers by. We learnt easy on that the camera and tripod was quite difficult to control, as it was a bit shaky, and we were quite trigger happy! It took quite a lot of takes for us to make a smooth zoom all the way from the ground up to focusing on Bella. We then zoomed in and simply got some shots of Bella swishing her hair, as is stereotypical of many feminine superheroes, for example Wonderwoman. This worked quite well, although you can't really tell that Bella is high up on top of a building. Our last idea for this shot was to have someone standing below and pointing up to Bella, to show that she caused a bit of disruption and confusion to members of the public. We decided to follow Eloise's arm point up towards Bella, and zoom in slightly as we went towards her. This worked quite well I think as it followed through very smoothly. This scene is stereotypically British, which enforces the fact that this is a British made film, as it includes a cobbled street, a war memorial, a typically British pub and some British flags flying off of the building that Bella is stood on.

Problems and solutions:

- We had the problems of the tripod balancing on the cobbled streets was quite difficult and could of created some wonky shots, so we took a platform with us to help even this out.
- Bella wasn't incredibly visible on the shoots where it isn't zoomed in, so we pulled in an extra to help draw attention to her.
- Asking Bella to do what we wanted during film was quite difficult because of the distance between us, and we didn't really want to shout unless necessary as it may of caused alarm to any passers by, so we had a spare person who we bought along with us to stay with her on the phone so we could keep in contact.
- We also had the age old problem of people interfering with the camera and walking in front of it or ruining our recordings. To combat this we placed a sign around us which informed the public that we were recording for our coursework and we would really appreciate it if they could not interfere.