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

 Introduction

       A storyboard is a visual representation of how your videos will come together, shot by shot and it is composed sometimes by drawings. Filmmakers use storyboards to prepare for production, to illustrate a story and show the changes of a scene. Filmmakers also see storyboarding as a way to save money by following the concepts that made them money in the first place. In addition, film production is the process of filming and bringing motion pictures alive to create one big film and the products my team and I are producing is a storyboard and sixteen shots that is showcasing camerawork. Camerawork is photographed pictures composed of different elements to capture the theme of those pictures. It is important for us, as students, to take camera work seriously so we could capture the root feeling of our photos and we wouldn’t repeat the same composition of the photo more than once. The categories of camerawork techniques that I will be applying in this assignment is shot sizes, camera angles, framing and composition.

My Storyboards 1 & 2

Storyboard 1

Storyboard 2

Reflection

        Our assignment objective was to learn about the different key camerawork shots and how to combine them to create a shot for a story board. We also had to learn why and how these type of media texts were produced in film industries and the process of making these media products. I learned that storyboards are there for film makers to be more organized with their shots and have a better visual representation on how they want their scene to look like. My team and I created storyboard 1 and 2 and composed different scenes for each so we would have a better understanding of how each camerawork element would fit in each shot and how it comes together to make a mini story. My team and I prepared for this assignment by gathering all the products we need in order to film, for example our phones, and planned out the places we were going to take these shots. Day 1 was pretty light for us, it didn’t takes us long to create the scene we wanted to because we understood how camerawork worked and we gathered up our knowledge and creativity to create our storyboard. The people that contributed to the story were Evan S. Woodson M. Joshua P. And I, Selina B. Evan took the pictures, Joshua did the research, I did the drawings and Woodson was the main actor for the pictures. The media tools used most in this assignment was the camera and the tripod because we were focused on trying to get each shot correctly than anything else. Evan was pretty good at creating the shots and I was there to edit the photos to make them how we really wanted. 

Work-Cited

Vyond Team on January 11, 2023 (2023) What is a storyboard & how do you create one? (with video), Vyond. Available at: https://www.vyond.com/resources/what-is-a-storyboard-and-why-do-you-need-one/ (Accessed: 12 November 2023).