In today's lesson we got set the task of beginning to experiment with different camera shots. These included:
- Close up
- Tracking shot
- Medium shot
- Footage that can be edited into a match on action shot
- Footage that can be edited into a shot/reverse shot
- Footage that can be edited to demonstrate the 180-degree rule
A close up shot, is a shot showing the face closely to show their emotions/reactions to a topic, which we demonstrated through Milly and Hannah's conversation.
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A tracking shot is when the camera appears to follow the person within the shot, which we showed when Milly started walking towards the door and the camera followed her.
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A medium shot shows the person's shoulders and up, which is also demonstrated when the girls are sitting down having a conversation.
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Match on Action is where one shot cuts to another shot, portraying the action of the subject in the first shot, which we did by showing Milly getting up and walking towards the door, and then showed her once she had walked through the door from another angle.
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Shot/reverse shot can be used in conversations between characters, which is how we used it, where it shows the character looking at (either using an over the shoulder shot or point of view shot), followed by a reverse angle shot or the character looking at it. We demonstrated this by using a point of view shot to show Milly talking to Hannah, then a shot of Hannah Speaking and then back to Milly.
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The 180-degree rule is used to show that the characters have the same left-right relationship to each other. This means drawing an imaginary axis between the two characters and once you have filmed from one side of that axis, you have to keep to that side, unless you show yourself purposefully breaking that 180-degree rule, as shown below.
Aim for next lesson: Edit footage from today.
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