Q2: Week #3 Camera Movement Technique Organizer Preliminary Exercise 10

Camera movement employs diverse movements to capture compelling shots. Some include:

Panning involves horizontal movement, scanning a scene's breadth.

Tilting shots the camera vertically, capturing the height of a subject.

Zooming alters the focal length, magnifying or narrowing the shot, creating visual impact through changing perspectives.

These  movements provide filmmakers with a toolkit for crafting engaging sequences. In a movie, camera movement influences viewer emotions and interpretation, enhancing immersion by evoking feelings directing attention dynamically. In this assignment the goal was to understand this camera work and learn to master it so my movie can live up to it's potential. I believe I have mastered these concepts.

Reflection: For this assignment I just simply used a computer and stock images on Power point to express the different camera movements. The assignment was to make a storyboard in order to capture camera images to practice so that when the film comes, we have already mastered the camera angles, framing, and shots. Lavelle W and Hughes P helped me here, I myself served as a model for my teammates to use in the presentation. A per usual I am proud of my work, and also as per usual we learned something, we learned more about camera movements and how they work. We analyzed each of these movements and now we know them by heart.

Preliminary Exercise 9: Practicing Camerawork Day 2

 Storyboard paper 3 

Shot 1: LJ and Shelton together.

Shot size: Medium

Camera angle: Shoulder 

Framing: 2 shot

Composition: Balance

Tone: Unnerving 

Shot 2: 

Shot size: Close up

Framing: One shot

Composition: Deep focus

Tone: Boring 

Shot 3: 

Shot size: Supervillain standing there menacingly.

Camera angle: Dutch

Composition: Deep focus

Tone: Evil

Shot size 4: Shelton talking to Myla

Camera angle: Over the shoulder

Framing: 2 shot

Composition:

Tone: Balance

Storyboard paper 4

Shot 1: A normal day in Piper.

Shot size: Wide

Camera angle: Ground level

Framing: Crowd shot

Composition: Shape

Tone: Messy

Shot 2: Casting Judgment.

Shot size: ECU

Camera angle: Ground level

Framing: Over the shoulder 

Composition: Deep focus

Tone: Serious 

Shot 3: Myla is disappointed.

Shot size: Medium

Camera angle: Ground level

Framing: POV

Composition: Deep focus

Tone: Serious

Shot 4: Myla walking

Shot size: Medium

Camera angle: Knee shot

Framing: 1 shot

Composition: Shallow focus

Tone: Boring

Preliminary Exercise 8: Practicing Camerawork: Shot Sizes, Camera Angles, Framing, and Camera Composition Day 1

                   

Camerawork is the different roles a camera has in a film. It's how we visually see movies. You can separate camerawork into 4 categories; shot sizes such as a large shots, camera angles such as Dutch angles, framing such as over the shoulder, and composition such as deep focus. The person responsible for this is mainly the director and how they direct the people being the camera and we can see their style, people like Wes Anderson who's won Oscars over amazing movies such as Grand Budapest Hotel or Fantastic Mr. Fox, another example is Tim Burton, as controversial as he is his camerawork has won him Emmys and has set his distinct style. My team and I need to use good camerawork to make the movie's visuals effective and come to life.

Shot #1: My bed

Shot size: master shot

Framing: POV

Camera angle: high angle


Composition: Asymmetrical

Tone: calm, messy room



Shot #2: My Tv Stand


Shot size: master shot




Camera angle: eye level

Framing: one shot

Composition: point

Tone: calm and playful because of the toys.
Shot #3: Stuffed animal's view


Shot size: wide shot




Camera angle: eye level

Framing: Pov

Composition: asymmetrical

Tone: messy

Shot #4: Stuffed animal in front of the hamper


Shot size: Insert shot of a characters toy.


Camera angle: eye level

Framing: one shot

Composition: deep focus

Tone: calm




Storyboard paper 2




Shot #1:



Shot size: medium shot


Camera angle: knee level

Framing: single shot

Composition: shallow focus

Tone: mysterious



Shot #2:









Shot size: medium shot


Camera angle: eye level

Framing: 2 shot

Composition: balance

Tone: scary



Shot #3:



Shot size: medium full shot


Camera angle: low angle

Framing: single shot

Composition: shallow focus

Tone: joyful with the sun behind.




Shot #4:






Shot size: medium close up




Camera angle: shoulder level

Framing: 3 shots

Composition: balance

Tone: dark and scary.




In this blog my team and I had to work as a group to take 16 different shots. In this assignment we got to learn how to get the angle rights and to put what we learned into practice. We each took our paper to make our storyboards and when we finished drawing, we were able to take most of our pictures in the classroom. Taking the pictures were easier than it seemed because having a storyboard that good helped us finish quickly. We didn't really need to use a complicated storyline for the action lines, the 2nd set of storyboards were about a killer, and the first was about a stuffed animal. We accomplished our goals at the end, and everything ended up how they were suppose to and I am really proud of us for doing it that way. In this blog we used a computer to help us with the definitions.

Preliminary Exercise 7: Storyboarding Camerawork: Shot Sizes, Camera angles, Framing and Camera Composition Post 1: Day 2

In storyboards you need to think about how shots will look and visualize what they will be when you take them. These require skills including basic art skills, thoughtful planning, and a knowledge in camerawork and shots, Sheets 3 and 4 are here to extend sheets 1 and 2 which shows examples of storyboards. Here we once again used camera framing, composition, camera angles, and shot sizes.

 

                                                        I learned what I learned in day 1, storyboards are more than just easy planning pictures, it requires thought and effort. This one was easier because I technically wasn't responsible for these sheets, I did sheet 1. We did it all in one swoop and did it in class together, although everyone was responsible for 1 sheet we did help each other when needed. I worked with Lavelle W, Shelton H, and Myla. I am an expert at this and we used pencil and the sheets. I learned that storyboarding is big and requires lots of planning and skill, more than one would think. It requires knowledge in camerawork and we can see how important it is to the planning and the start of a film.

Preliminary Exercise 6: Storyboarding Camerawork: Shot Sizes, Camera angles, Framing and Camera Composition Post 1: Day 1

                      Storyboards are essentially blueprints for a film. They're important because it gives directors an idea on what the actors should do, and it also helps building the script and the actions characters will do. A film production is self explanatory, how a movie is made. In this assignment my teammates and I created 16 storyboards, each paper telling their own "stories" using camerawork. Camerawork is the how shots are made in movies. In this my teammates and I used many shot sizes, framing, camera angles, and compositions to make these images.

In this assignment I learned that storyboarding is a bit more complex than drawing doodles for the actors to play out. It takes a little more thinking and thought into how these shots will turn out and creating these storyboards really cemented that idea. My teammates and I really had to look over what these shots, angles, etc. mean and what they look like because it is extremely important and day 1 was pretty much us reading it over and getting everything exact. I worked with Shelton H, Lavelle W, and Myla and we were each responsible to do 1 sheet seeing as though there were 4 sheets and 4 of us. I can now say I am an expert at this and I learned that storyboarding is a bit more complex than meets the eye.

Preliminary Exercise 5: Analyzing Film Genre

                         Genre is a category in which a movie is placed to define it's contents, for example a horror movie is placed as a horror movie because it's scary. This is important because it can give film producers a certain audience to attract, and it can give an idea for what a movie has in store for audiences. Examples of genres include: horror, comedy, action, and sci-fi. To compliment genres, subgenres are sort of like genres within genres, for example a horror movie can be in space so it's now a sci-fi horror film. My personal favorite genre is comedy, it's funny and when I watch most movies I don't want to feel sad or be hit with a massive dose of reality, most of the time I just want to sit back and enjoy a nice funny movie.

                              This assignment was done to show what genre and subgenre is and my partner and I(my partner did little to no work he just sat there)chose sports boxing because the movie I'm building for Media Studies will be a movie involving boxing. Sports genre is a movie involving athletic activities and boxing movies are movies involving the sport of boxing. 

Genre: Boxing

Setting: Boxing ring, gym

Iconography: Muscular men, shorts, boxing gloves

Narrative themes: Honor, strength, courage, growth

Characters: Boxer and his opponent 

Tone and atmosphere: Exciting and tense

Rocky 4(1985)                                                                   Ivan Drago(R)

                                                            Rocky(L)

 Reflection:

           

                  In this assignment I uses a bubble diagram poster to show an example of genre and subgenre. All I did was draw a boxing glove and added some bubbles with connotations because the genre I used inside of them. To complete this I used a computer and phone to get an idea of what to do in this assignment and I'd have to say I am an expert and I know exactly what I'm doing. I learned what the sports/boxing genre means and how to identify genres in movies.

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