Tricky Shots- Pouring coins Analysis

We plan on creating the visage of pouring coins in our film, so we conducted two practice shots of pouring coins. In Practice 1 we placed the the pennies into a plastic cup (which in our film would be a jar) and tipped them out slowly. We attempted to pour the coins in several motions as originally in our film we wanted a slow trickle of coins but not in a continuous flow. We decided it was more effective to have a close up shot of the jar and have the pennies falling off the frame. This would allow us to emphasise that there is a lot of pennies that our characters are searching through. In Practice 2 we decided to attempt a more continuous pouring of coins from the jar. Once again we placed the pennies into the plastic cup, this time keeping a continuous motion in order to make the coins fall. We wanted to emphasise the vast amounts of pennies being used and therefore felt that a close up of the pouring coins and allowing them to fall off frame would be the best option, as it allows the motion to flow better.

From conducting the practice shots we decided that the most effective way to display the pouring of pennies would be a close up shot and a more continuous shot of the pouring of pennies. However, as this was difficult to achieve during our practice shots, we have decided that it would be more effective if we placed the jar behind the camera and poured the pennies over it during our film. We would achieve this by placing the camera lower to the ground and slowly tipping the pennies in front of the lens, in order to create the idea of a penny waterfall.