In a previous blog entry, I wrote extensively about a particular shot I wanted to film for my 4 minute piece "A Journey Through Freedom." The shot itself was about the camera "passing through" the wall of a particular set, and appearing on the otherside, revealing that there was a large room equipped with a video camera behind what appeared to be a normal bathroom mirror.
It just so happens that by chance, I was watching the classic Stanley Kubrick film "The Shining" with a fellow classmate, and came across a particular shot that mirrors what I am after exactly.
Please forgive the quality of the video.
Although I will definitely not be able to pull off the kind of shot Kubrick managed to, since the sides of the wall the camera begins and ends with in my film will not be in the same set, this video gives a very good idea of the kind of effect I am after with the reveal of the 2-way mirror.
Discovering this shot has made me realize that Stanley Kubrick has used a lot of the kind of shots in his films that I would like to use in my own, and so I think it would be a very good idea for me to watch some more of the Kubrick films, such as "A Space Oddessey" and "A Clockwork Orange" to see if these films give me any more ideas about how I would like to shoot my own film.
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