Media Camera Shots

Media Camera Shots

In media on Thursday 15th September we learnt different camera angles. I learnt;

Extreme close up

Two shot

Establishing shot

Extreme long shot

Long shot

Mid shot (to be cut from below waist, top of legs to show actor has legs)

Close up (to be cut below chin, on shoulders to show actor has body)

Also in the lesson we viewed another students work who received an A for their piece. This helped us to understand the work and different effects we would need to learn in order to achieve a high piece of standard work like that.

We all learnt how to reject and put in the tapes correctly without breaking the camera and how to change camera settings to record in sunlight and artificial light by changing the white balance and how to check and set the camera to its manual setting.

We then got into groups and went off into the academy and we able to try and record a stalker scene using a sequence of shots given to us. This proved a challenge as this was our first time with the cameras and we weren’t allowed to move the camera to 'sweep the scene' the actor had to move out of the shot. This was difficult enough without only having 20/25 minutes in which to complete the task.

In the 2nd half of the lesson we set up our blog.spot accounts. We also looked at the opening credits for seven (se7en) to see how the opening make the audience see that the film is a thriller. We learnt about the mise-en scene and what makes a thriller opening; the art of the title. The design aspects of the opening sequence, the images used, style, visual, font, animation and the editing of the whole piece make this.