Rooftop Fight

Final edit for the fight sequence

Lights, Camera's.... Editing

When deciding what to capture earlier in the year we looked at a few action and fights scenes to try and gain inspiration and ideas. We also looked at the best way to present action and fights to an audience and a lot of it happens in quick succession with plenty of action and reaction shots to convey the story without dialog. Above are some of the shots I have chosen to shot the contact of the punch as well as the reaction.

In MotionBuilder we previously looked at camera's, lenses and focal length and in this screen shot I'm using a fairly wide camera which distorts the shot but I'm using it to emphasize the sweep that is about to occur. The wide lens with the low angle helps to sell that idea (I think) and it also breaks up the constant over the shoulder action/reaction to wide/full shots. I've also decided to use some point-of-view camera's to help get over the "line" and create a bit more tension. 

 Here is an example of some of the lighting I used in MotionBuilder, found it a little confusing but I think I got most of it to work and create an eerie night mood.