Film Techies
Our first assignment last week (Oct. 29th) was to shoot each of these shots with good composition, rule of thirds, balance, open space in the front of subject, etc.
1. Establishing Shot, 2. Wide shot, 3. Medium shot, 4. Close up, 5. Extreme Close-up, 6. Low angle, 7. High angle, 8. Dutch angle, 9. Over the shoulder, 10. Two-shot.
I was a little surprised that the students did not do better than they did. I’m sure many of them have had very little experience with a digital camera, so I have to take that into account. I am giving them a black and white hard copy of each of their pictures next week. We will go through each person’s work and analyze them. One girl had 3-4 good ones, but that was the most. Many didn’t do all 10 shots. I want them to try again on this assignment, because I feel that they didn’t try very hard.
I want to move on to stop-motion animation this next week, but we will see if we can improve their composition before we do that. I will be prepared to show them some work with stop-motion. Hopefully this will get them excited to try it. I have also had a hard time getting everyone there. There is a lot of sickness going around; I know that is a factor. I gave everyone that wasn’t there a copy of the assignment they could do at home. Two students brought their own cameras; that helped with the number of people on a team. We had enough to have only two students on a team. Parents-please let your student bring a digital still camera this week if possible. (Nov. 5) We don't need a video camera yet.
News Crew
Mrs. Ashmore's class did the filming for the news this week. I have it published (minus the Halloween carnival pics) on SchoolTube.com We learned a hard lesson this week: Always check your work! On two takes the camera wasn't recording, so we didn't have the shot when I tried to edit. This week, Ms. LeBaron will be doing the filming with her crew because I will not be in school on Friday. They came in today and did the initial writing for it.
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