Over The Sholder Acitvity

In my group, we first read the scripts to see what and how we would act it out. When we finally read the script, we then talked and took notes on what facial expression and body language we would do when we act the script out. I realized you really have to pay attention with the lines and what actions are supposed to be made. YOu need to read the script carefully and take foot-notes along the side of the script so you can remember. Our group definately followed the rule of thirds becuase during the dialouge, its right in the middle box where the grid would be. When the camera is focused on liz over the sholder of myself, Liz is prefectly on the right corner of the middle box if the grid were there. When the camera is focused on me over the solder of Liz, I perfectly at the left side corner of the box if the grid were there also. The impression that the over-the-sholder camera shot gives the audience the knowledge of where the other character that is not the focus of the shot is. This works by taking a shot of the persons back/half of their head (getting a shot of [part of their ear) but also looking toward the person speaking right infront of him/her. The dialouge at the end looks realtistic because our attitudes and the way we were speaking really make the scene look like it's real. In our video, it has actually a very funny tone to it. Our acting makes people laugh a little becuase some could really relate to it. People would atcually act like this especially it their expecting something from that person. There was still a bit of anticipation with the help of our script but with me and Liz's attitude brought a different/ funny mood. We accomplished setting this right tone and mood by practicing before and thinking how we would react to this script if it really happened. We basically agreed this is how we would act in real life so we decided to incorporate it:). I noticed how while we were filming this activity, we acutally hid our scripts with the person opposite to us when the person opposite to us wasn't seen on camera. It's very funny how it wasn't captured by the camera. Some ideas I had in mind for potentially using over-the-shoulder was maybe if someone makes a soap opera/suspensful video, this would be a great camera angle to use to set a great rising action bewteen two characters.