Skills Development: Cutaways

 A cutaway is typically used to change perspective and bring something else to the audience's attention, disrupting the potential for one large clip, which is typically considered unappealing to the eye. They can also be used to patch potential mistakes within videos, by cutting to a different part it prevents any errors in the original clip from being seen. Such as any unwanted movement or mistakes can be quickly patched up with a cutaway to a different shot, separating the error from the rest of the shot, deciding to go back to the original clip if you want after the error has been corrected in the original clip.

I used this cutaway here to signify the importance of the equipment, along with being able to bring detail to the movements used within the project as a whole when it comes to the barber. It also adds interest to the regular clip, zooming in on certain properties that the original clip covered, but enhancing it and providing a different visual aspect of the footage. This is an extreme close up, to be precise when it comes to shots. The angle is an eye level, which helps categorise and differentiate from the original clip.

Within this clip we get a better perspective of both the barber and the patient's faces, which in turn adds to the visual aspect as we get a far different view in comparison to the original clip, such as the shot being a mid shot with a zoom in on the mirror, it adds importance to the scenery surrounding the barbers along with the two people shown within the clip. It can be seen as more of an eye level perspective for the patient to the viewer, whilst separating the viewing of the barber, being at a low angle, the contrast adds to the relation between the viewer and the patient, however the cutaway allows for a better viewing of the haircut from the front being shown. 

From this cutaway we can see that I have made use of the over the shoulder camera angle, in a somewhat close up, this overall adds the importance of the hand movements of the barber and how they operate, allowing further detail of how they operate to be shown. This shot adds to the appeal as it is highly different from the original clip whilst still keeping the similar premise, showing it from a much different look, adds gains the interest to see how the barber's hands move in the scene.