CAMERA EXERCISE

What we did?

In this exercise we showed all the different camera shots, and how they are presented through films, these included:

• Long Shot - This is a shot which is taken from far away
• Medium Shot - This is a shot where the person is not close up but is not far away
• Close Up -  A shot where it has been taken up close
• Extreme Close Up - A shot which has been take extremely close, so for example a shot of the eyes. 
• Point of View (POV) - We are able to see what the actor is seeing
• Over the Shoulder - Looking over the shoulder of someone to see the other person talking
• Low Angle - Is a shot taken from below to make a person seem as if they're in control. 
• High Angle - Is a shot taken from above, to make someone look vulnerable
• Pan - Right to Left/ Left to Right, Goes round
• Tilt - Tilting the camera either up or down
• Crane Shot - Very high angle looking at someone/ something e.g. helicopter
• Tracking Shot - Following someone around with the camera
• Rolling Shot - Like someone falling, moving sideways gradually, or very quickly

In my group we made sure that we had videoed all the shots above. After that we put all the shots that we videoed and we edited it altogether and we put titles at the bottom so that you were able to see which shot was which. We chose to do all the shots so that when it comes to looking back on the shots we will know which shot is which and we made sure that we did all of the shots. 

When it came to the shot then we will did not tell a story, this was because we wanted to make sure that we got each shot in the video, and we wanted to be able to get a feel of what it was like to use a camera, and the different shots. I believe that our video was a success because we made sure that we completed the task, which was to make sure that we include all the different shots. This had a positive outcome at the end of the day because now we understand how and at which moment we can use these different shots. 

Our negatives: 

In this short clip that we did with all the different shots in it, and we understood how each shot we should be used. However if there was supposed to be any improvement on the task we did then we should have at least had a story behind it, so that it would have been more entertaining for us and it would sit in our minds more. But overall I feel that it as a whole we did very well.

Also when it came to filming we had to make sure that we kept the camera as steady as possible, but unfortunately we wasn't able to achieve this in every shot, so this could be another fault in the task that we was supposed to fulfil. Each shot was taken appropriately but I believe that we need to improve on the techniques of how we film and also the area that we film.