Britannia High Camera Work

Britannia High

Starts off with an shot on a glass which catches the audiences eye straight away and then pans onto a master shot with all the characters sat down with their eyes on the blond boy who is stood up. This is to show that he is the important one and is the main character in this scene as in this case, the one being contradicted.

Then it is on an eye level shot of the boy who was speaking to make the audience feel more involved in the conversation like you are apart of the conversation and sitting down with them. The camera is also a bit shaky to make it feel more natural to the scene rather than a fixed shot on a tripod. The camera flicks through peoples reactions to what the boy is saying and then it cuts to the blond hair boy at a mid shot at eye level to again make the audience feel involved. The camera then cuts through with different people speaking with the eye level view and then goes to a close up of the boy who was originally contradicting on a side view as he mutters one word shaking his head to show that what he had said is different and important to the rest of the conversation as they used a different camera angle. They continue the dispute and then the camera is at a close up of the blond boy when he reveals something to show that it is important. It then carries on with the conversation with close up’s on the characters and then the camera is back on the blond boy as he walks away from the mid shot while the camera pans and follows to show he is leaving the conversation. They then continue to speak and then the blond boy walks off from a fixed camera shot which adds the affect that he is fed up and has left which then cuts to a shot of him walking up the stairs with most of the characters still in the shot to show their reaction.

It then cuts to a setting the scene shot where it shows fast bits of different London scenery with a red bus (which is typical London) and graffiti to show where the next scene will be. It then cranes down a building to show where the characters are and to show how big the building is. It then cuts in to everyone having a conversation at eye level again, and then another girl walks in the camera pans her and then cuts to a camera shot of her at a mid shot to the right of the camera with the other boy who mainly contradicted the blond boy at the left sitting down quite far back. He is out of focus and she is in focus to show that she is the important one who is delivering the news.

It then does another quick scene change and shows quick cuts of a bus leaving and then to a field with cows and farm area. It then opens a scene on a tree leaves which shows the new setting they are in is a rural area and is likely to be the countryside. It is focused on the tree with the group walking in the background out of focus and then it focuses on the group using depths of field. It shows a reverse shot of a couple and then a mid shot of a couple of girls as they are walking and talking and then the camera stops as the girls walk past the camera. It then goes to a full shot of all the group as they figure out which way to go. After a bit, they reach the house and the camera zooms in on them staring at a front shot to emphasise their disbelief and the a reverse shot of them but with the house in full view to show how small they are compared to the house to emphasise how huge the house actually is and then back to a front shot.

It then cuts to a high shot of a room with the blond hair boy and his father playing pool and it shows the whole room to show how rich he is. It then cuts to the father at a mid shot at the right of the camera leaning on a pinball machine with a massive bookcase to the left of the shot to show how wealthy his family is with the pool table still in view. It then cuts back to the boy with the same technique used to show how wealthy he is by having a jukebox to his left with a massive fireplace to his right. It then shows him walking down the stairs to answer the door at a high angle shot which shows the stairs, classy chandelier which is again used to show how wealthy he is. They then come in and sit down and it is sort of like a repeat of the first scene where they were all sitting down and the blond boy was stood up getting questioned again. Everything is the same with eye level shots again all at mid shot for the conversation and then everyone leaves for lunch and the camera shows the room and door with everyone leaving and then it pans and follows the kid walking towards the blond kid to show that they are about to speak together on their own.
It then carries to over the shoulder shots at close ups of both characters to show that it is just them speaking in the conversation and then the other kid walks off whilst barging his shoulder as he walks past the fixed shot of the camera to show that he has left the conversation.