Preliminary Exercise 12: Camera Movement Videos

 Introduction

    Now, in this assignment, we bring our ideas to life. After creating the storyboard, we move on to the hard part of the assignment which is to create a video containing the elements of camera movement. We needed props, such as our books, a camera to film and a tripod. The camera movements techniques we decided to use for this project is trucking shot, static, zoom in, tilt, camera roll, and boom shot. We chose these techniques because we found it easier to illustrate the making of our videos and would fit our ideas the best.

Videos

Video 1 (trucking)

• Action Line: Evan is walking to the vending machines.

• Shot size: Full

• Camera angle: Shoulder level

• Framing:  Single

• Composition: Deep focus

Video 2 (static)

• Action Line: Evan is trying to choose which item he should buy.

• Shot size: Medium full

• Camera angle: Knee level

• Framing: Single

• Composition: Shallow

Video 3 (zoom in)

• Action Line: Evan is looking at the last sprite in the machine.

• Shot size: Close up

• Camera angle: Over the shoulder

• Framing: Insert shot

• Composition: Color

Video 4 (tilt)

• Action Line: Joshua and Woodson are working on math homework.

• Shot size: Establishing shot

• Camera angle: High

• Framing: Two

• Composition: Deep Focus

Video 5 (Camera roll)

• Action Line: Joshua and Woodson realizes that the homework is confusing.

• Shot size: Master Shot

• Camera angle: High

• Framing: Single 

• Composition: Shapes

Video 6 (Boom)

• Action Line: Joshua and Woodson are now talking about the work.

• Shot size: Master shot

• Camera angle: Shoulder

• Framing: Two shot

• Composition: balance

Reflection

We learned how each of these techniques worked and how they are composed. Evan was a camera man, I created the ideas and Woodson and Joshua were the actors. For the first 3 though, I had to become the camera man since Evan was going to be a character. Our team had different responsibilities and we all were helping each other out by giving orders and setting things right for the video. I needed help composing one of the techniques and usually Evan or Woodson would help. The team did a great job during this assignment; they were all so determined to get the job done perfectly.

Work Cited

(No date) Video production: A beginner’s guide | adobe. Available at: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/video/discover/video-production.html (Accessed: 12 December 2023).