Monday, November 13, 2023

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.

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