Planning Cinematography - Miss Miller

Planning Cinematography - Miss Miller

The importance of cinematography in films is that it creates different emotions for the audience and the characters through camera angles. The different camera angles can suggest different scenarios within the film which helps create a relationship with the audience and build tension within the film. The cinematography is used to show different angles within a scene and can play an important part in the plot, giving the audience tension and suspense which is needed within a thriller.

Planning is required to produce excellent sequences because without planning it is easy for us to go off track and lose sense of what our plan actually is within out thriller. The plan for our cinematography is critical so that it makes our scenes more interesting and effective making and inspiration a reality.

the camera angles that me and the rest of the group thought would be the most effective to use are,
- Close Up
- High Angle
- Point Of View
- Long Shot
- Mid Shot

All of these camera angles have been use to add different effects to different scenes. We have included point of view camera angle as this shot makes the audience feel like they are the character themselves and see what they can see. We have used this in particular when the killer is outside and the girl is looking out the window at him. The shot makes the audience feel as if they are the victim as they can se what she sees which creates a relationship with the audience as they believe they are in the victims shoes adding suspense as they wonder what they are going to do next in the sequence. We hope this camera angle makes the victim seem inferior to everything that's happening and hope that it makes the audience connect with the victims emotions, and make them feel sympathy towards them. This would be conventional to a thriller as it would created suspense and tension for the audience which is always needed in a thriller.

We have also used High angle shots when the young girl is in her bedroom dancing to music. We have specifically used this here so that it looks like she is being recorded by the killer whilst he will be watching the footage outside the house which she obviously is oblivious too. We got this inspiration from Paranormal activity where everything is recorded, we thought this would be a good element to add as it's like somebody is watching the young girl. This camera angle will create a relationship with the audience as they will feel helpless and the suspense and tension will be create in a lot more depth. We want this angle to make sure the characters are portrayed as vulnerable so that the audience feel sympathy for them making them create a relationship with the characters themselves. This is conventional to a thriller as the angle makes the victims look vulnerable which in every thriller they are portrayed as.

Another camera angle we have included is close ups. We have included this as it will focus on the emotions of the characters when we are closed in on their face and not the background. We are using this in several scenes as we need to show the pain of the characters when they are in a lot of trouble with the killer,  and see the unawareness of what is going to happen. This angle is effective as you can really make the emotions from the characters create a relationship with the audience, from changing to sympathy and remorse, to suspense and fear of what is going to happen next, as the close up blocks out the background the audience can't see what else is around the character and only their faces. This cinematography element is conventional to a thriller as it makes us believe that the characters are real which gives it that sense of reality but then the suspense that they need in a thriller.


I think that the sequence will be more effective in terms of creating an emotional reaction through cinematography as the different angles and shots makes and conveys different emotions which will help make our thriller more exciting whilst it intensifies. It is conventional to the thriller genre as they make the audience more engaged within the film whilst creating different emotions such as shock suspense and tension. The planning has helped us with the preparation for the filming as it has broken down all of the elements we need to make out thriller more intensifying and scary, and has made sure we know what we are doing before we decide to go ahead with the filming.