16-09-09 "film school"

In today's lesson we decided to create our own film school. This was an opportunity to investigate different shot types that we may or may not want to use for our music videos. Our group only experimented with the following shots as they were the most neccessary.

- Trombone shots. where the camera zooms in but tracks backwards at an equal speed, therefore creates a nauseous. (harder than it looks)

- Cutting on XCUs. This is a technique that can be used to create either a time lapse e.g someone shaking hands when they are children to a cut and zoom out revealing them as adults. Or it can be used as a way of changing location using the same technique however when the camera zooms out the characters are either different or ina diffrerent setting.

- Disappears. This old school simple technique is carried out by fioming a shot for a period of time - press pause - main character leaves the scene whilst everything else is the same - and then resume recording resulting in an effect that gives the viewer the impression the character has dissapered.

- Floating heads. This is where the actor wheres black or covers their body with a black sheet, a bright light is used on their face and then in editing the contrast is boosted up which gives the impression of floating heads.

- Headcam fixed shots.

-Time lapse. A technique used to create a setting where the main character is passing through time alot slower than his surroundings. this is dine simply by filming a (usually) static shot of a busy background with the main character keeping as still as possible and then speeding it all up in editing.