Location As A Character Critique

          
I chose the beach as my location, primarily because I felt that the non-stop motion and sights would be a great place to get really interesting shots. My first shot just reveals the setting to the audience as I’m driving by. It uses a constantly changing perspective to  I then move onto a few shots of birds and a few surfers, I got really lucky that a load of birds decided to fly and swarm around the area I was shooting at, providing some really good quality shots. This shot had something like the opposite of rhythm. Rhythm is organized movement, but the birds flying looks unorganized.  I also got some good shots of some funny birds who were running away from the waves trying to catch sand crabs. This shot has rhythm, because it makes the viewer’s eye follow either the bird, or the waves coming in. The waves were exceptionally calm, so the water retracting from the rocks and the sand added some really nice texture. I also had a cool shot of me following some footprints I found on the beach.  These shots have a good focal point and shape, as the footprints are shadowed to bring them out much more.  My shots of the beach would have been very unbalanced without the rocks in the background to balance it out. Since the rocks provided balance, the shots turned out really well to capture the whole beach. I also had to add in what I could get of the surfers, and it provided some perspective because it showed how small the surfers were compared to huge ocean. I also got a really nice shot of two birds who were sitting on the water take off and barely clear an oncoming wave, which provided good visual movement and action. I ended it with a nice shot that started with a close up on a sailboat on the water, then slowly zoomed out all the way to show the whole beach, but I still kept the sailboat in the middle of shot as the focal point.

Classicalism, Formalism, Realism, Oh My