New Year, New Project

On Tuesday's lesson (9th June '09) we were told that the main focus for our A2 course will be film and our task today was to start development on our shooting techniques, we started slow today, which was helpful, our task was to merely film the following shots:
- Close up, a zoomed shot on one subject
- Extreme close up, further zoomed shot, focussing on one aspect of said sucject (in our case a person's eye)
- Medium shot (A 'medium' amount of space between subject and camera, this may be 10 - 15 feet)
- Long shot ( The camera is a long way from the subject, say the width of a football pitch if not longer)
- Over the shoulder shot (The shot is filmed from over the shoulder of a subject, usually while talking to a subject whom is standing in front of them)
- 2 shot (A shot involving two subjects comfortably)
- Canted shot (The camera is slanted during the shot)
- Low shot (The camera is placed low to the ground and pointed up to look up to the subject)
- High shot (The camera is placed high up and looks down on the subject
- Panning shot (The cameraman stays still while pivoting slowly on the spot, this pans the landscape of the video)
- Tracking shot (The camera simply follows (or tracks) subjects)
Our filming of these shots probably could of gone better, due to the sun being inconvenient and causing or clapperboard to be unreadable for many shots, also a little mix of whether the camera was recording or not meant our tracking shot was ruined