Research: Camera Drunken Effects Research

After deciding that in the narrative our character will be drunk, we thought that it would be most effective to show this aspect particularly through the POV shots. To make these shots realistic and believable we thought that we could use or create some camera effects or editing techniques. I will be researching into our possible and best options that we could use in our film opening.

The first camera technique I looked into was the unsteadiness, this was to make everything seem disorientated and so that you can almost feel the effect of the stumbling. To test this out I have experimented different ways that you can make the shot unsteady using test shots. 

Technique one:
We waved the camera side to side when walking this worked well and could be a possible technique to use

The second camera technique was blurriness, this is also to add to the effect of disorientation and get the full effect of what it is like being drunk. When researching the ways I could get blurry shots on the internet I found out that to get the effect it was mostly created when editing. However, there is one way you could create it, which we could do luckily due to the type of camera we are going to use.

On iMovie there are a number of effects which you can use to get the blurry effect and they are listed below:

• If you slow down the video by quite a bit, it slightly blurs it naturally anyway. Slowing it down does at to the drunken effect as when drunk, reactions are slowed down so this is quite a realistic effect.
• The video effect 'glow' can be used. This blurs it reasonably well but also brightens it quite a bit, this almost makes it feel like a flashback which is not the desired look so this isn't probably the most suitable.
• The video effect 'romantic' can be used. This blurs it slightly but again brightens it up making it also seem like a flashback thus not the most suitable.

The most suitable techniques for our opening is the slowing down of the video.

Finally, after choosing technique 1 and the camera technique for the blurred effect to be most suitable I have used them together at the same time to see how easy and effective it is.

SUMMARY:
From this piece of research I have found out that:
-Technique number 1 was the best technique to get an unsteady look
-Having bright lights in the distance/background when doing technique number 2 adds to the drunken effect, in this case street lights and tail lights on cars would be good
-I think that combining the camera technique of waving the camera with the  slow-mo would be most effective.