This shot further varies our shot list, being the only extreme close-up shot in the scene. Extreme close-up shots are conventional for action films, often used to create tension by not showing the audience the full picture. For example, focusing on a bead of sweat running down a characters face in a tense situation or just having the countdown timer on the side of the bomb taking up the whole of the screen rather than the team rushing to defuse it. We took these kinds of shots as inspiration for this shot, believing that using this convention would help create the tension we wanted to create at this stage in the scene. We wanted to raise tension as this is a pivotal moment in the scene, where the audience finally gets to find out what is in the briefcase that is so important. Our idea with this shot was to go extremely close to the padlock so that the numbers could be seen being changed into the correct code, but unfortunately the zoom on the camera meant quality was lowered significantly so we had to settle for this level of zoom instead, although we still think it is effective.
Lighting was an issue in this shot, one that we only noticed in editing when it was too late to change anything. The light reflecting off the padlock means the numbers cannot be made out and our villains hands also seem too white. We tried experimenting with different techniques to adjust the colour in post-production but couldn't find a way to do it that kept it looking realistic. In future we would keep a closer eye on the lighting of the shot during production so we don't run into this problem again.
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