Camera Movements
Learning camera movements actually came quite easily to me. I first learned about these movements from another class of mine years back. It was a bit difficult memorizing the names of all of the camera movements and the reasons they are used, but once I got the hang of it, it was pretty intriguing.
For my camera movements project, I started later than most people in my class, so I ended up having to do it at home. For that project, my class had to create a short film using the movements static, pan, tilt, push in/out, and one of our choice. We also had to create a Word document about our film explaining how each movement helped tell our story. The experience of creating these videos was pretty fun, considering I was able to use my little sisters as actors, and I had a few extra days to film.
Even though it was fun doing the project, I had a little trouble along the way. First, coming up with an idea was hard because the prompt was "surprise," and, being me, I initially didn't read the instructions. Because of that, I came up with a whole idea that had nothing to do with the prompt. Once I had read the instructions and changed my initial idea, I had some help from my little siblings for ideas, and they actually had some thoughts.
Another challenge that I had with this project was that the movements that we had to use weren't as easy to film as I thought. Specifically, pan was challenging to do when I was at a high angle. I had to take a few shots at filming that angle, but in the end it came out good.
Throughout this project, I learned how to maneuver my cell phone to capture camera movements and how to come up with a script.
If I had the chance to redo this project, I would definitely read the full instructions first before making the plan for the film. Also, I would plan the film out more thoroughly because I kind of winged it for this project and came up with the lines along the way, causing me and the actors to take more time in the filming process.
Camera Shots/Angles
Learning camera shots and angles came a bit harder for me. This is probably because this is entirely new information, and the names of the shots were SO hard to remember. If I'm being honest, I still have some trouble understanding them all, but I'm getting better.
For this project, we had to take 15 photos using different camera shots and/or angles whilst telling a story about inanimate objects. This project was a bit difficult for me because how are you supposed to tell a story while only using pictures of things that aren't even able to portray emotion?! I had to take a while to come up with an idea, but I was able to eventually come up with one about bullying and started working on drawing each angle down on my planning sheet.
A major challenge that I had with this project was showing all of the emotion that I wanted the characters to have in the scenes, whilst only being able to use objects. Along with finding which angle to go with which scene, I also had to be able to capture the angles themselves, which proved to be quite the challenge, and I had to do many takes to get them right.
This project helped me learn how to make a story without dialogue or visible movement. Also, I learned how to take angles, like worms view, on objects that are fairly close to the ground.
Next time I do a project like this, I will make sure that I fully understand the concept of all angles and shots and have firm confidence in my storyboard.
This is the link to the project itself.
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