The Discovery: Camera Framework and Movement

Framing is about how one positions the camera and frames the shot: this includes movement or mobile framing.
The concept of this task was to create a single camera drama entitled The Discovery, and make our own edits to the sequence. Paired up with Sabrina and Isabella, our objective was to create a sequel to the first single camera drama, The Chase.
The ghost of the deceased from the first film haunts the murderer and brutally murders her on campus and her corpse is discovered by a student. 
Pre Production
Ideally the scene was meant to have some dialogue but as it was not a necessity in this particular task we choose to rule out the dialogue and include it in the editing process. Instead of drawing a script we drew up a guideline, outlining the flow of events in the film. The protagonist crying in the bathroom, she is haunted by the antagonist in the mirror. Te twist is, the protagonist was already dead when she entered the bathroom, she just didn't know it. Her corpse is later discovered by an innocent student. 
We found this narrative very elaborate and complex compared to our other narratives, because it involved such a complex story line even though it was only set in one location.
I found this very effective for a thriller/horror film because there are a number of horror films that have been set in one location. 
During the drawing up of the storyboard, we made sure to show case different types of framing, for example the use of close ups to determine emotions and reactions and long shots to show case body language, costumes etc.
This task was to be done in our own individual edits. The filming process was not long, the entire clip was filmed in one day, we used props such as fake blood borrowed from the drama department, we also used our surroundings as a prop, that is the mirror in the female lavatory. 
After the filming process I proceeded to edit my work via premiere. This is because premiere work can be tweaked from various locations as long as it had been saved in my "T1.." Drive. 
I introduced the film with the protagonist crying in the bathroom, having flash backs of the person that she had killed in the previous film, the guilt had consumed her and she was scared. This was evident by the  close up of her upset and emotionally distressed face. The camera then pans out to reveal that the ghost of the person that she had killed standing in the mirror, who is evidently revealed as the antagonist in this particular film. Startled, I used a clip of the protagonists reaction to this shocking establishment, she turns around in shock but the camera is in a fixed position of  a mid shot of both the protagonist and the antagonists reflection in the mirror. I found this effective because it then shows the audience who is in the scene, and whether the protagonist is real or fake because she is only seen in the mirror. This begun the altercation between the ghost and the girl. The protagonist exclaims that the antagonist isn't real and the antagonist asks her whether she is real. This scene contained a various amount of close ups, because it was a conversation I used the technique of shot reverse shot which is conventional for a conversation. The following shot was a pan shot the camera pans down from the protagonists eyes to the ground where her corpse lays. I think this shot was effective in the sense that it showed the audience how oblivious the antagonist was to her own demise. The next scene showed  Sabrina coming in to the bathroom and seeing her friend on the ground dead, she screams. this shot is a side view shot showing Sabrina looking at the corpse. To conclude the scene, we show Bella the ghost wiping her hands and smiling devilishly.