Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Preliminary Exercise 9: Practicing Camerawork: Shot Sizes, Camera Angles, Framing, and Camera Composition Day 2

 Introduction

        Filming on a site or in other words, Filming location is the place where productions and shots are taken place. Cinematography is the art of photography, visual story telling and how all the elements comprises to create such a story. The person mainly in charge of the cinematography is the cinematographer/ the director of photography. Another person who was famous for their cinematography is Gordon Willis. The movies he has shot is Manhattan(1979) and Annie Hall(1977).

Shots 9-11

Shot#9 Woodsons passes someone in a grocery store.
Shot size: Medium
Camera Angle: overhead
Framing: Two shot
Composition: Deep

Shot#10 Woodson is checking out the vegetables.
Shot size: Medium full
Camera angle: Dutch
Framing: Single
Composition: Balance

Shot#11 Woodson is examining the bell peppers.
Shot size: Extreme Close up
Camera Angle: shoulder
Framing: over the shoulder
Composition: shallow

Shot#12 Woodson picks up s bell pepper 
Shot size: Close up
Camera angle: Eye level
Framing: Insert
Composition: point of view

Shots 13-16

Shot#13 Woodson is at the library checking out books.
Shot size: medium
Camera angle: shoulder
Framing: crowd
Composition: Shallow

Shot#14 Emma searches for more books.
Shot size: wide shot
Camera angle: over the head
Framing: over the shoulder
Composition: lines and shapes

Shot#15 Emma finds a book.
Shot size: Extreme close
Camera angle: knee level
Framing: Insert
Composition: Deep

Shot#16 Woodson examines the books.
Shot size: Medium
Camera angle: ground
Framing: point of view 
Composition: color


Reflection

   This activity has the same objective as Exercise 8 but these shots contains harder components for the shots. The roles stayed the same expect when we needed our director (Evan) to become an extra character for our shot. We did end up creating our shots and being successful at finishing them. As always, I was in charge of the editing, drawing and planning, Woodson was the main actor, Joshua did research and Evan was in charge of filming. 

Work-cited

Film 101: What is cinematography and what does a cinematographer do? - 2023 (no date) MasterClass. Available at: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/film-101-what-is-cinematography-and-what-does-a-cinematographer-do (Accessed: 14 November 2023).

J.B. (2022) The 20 best cinematographers of all time: WedioBecome better creators - together. Available at: https://academy.wedio.com/famous-cinematographers/ (Accessed: 14 November 2023). 

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