In this blog post, I will show 12 common film shots that I took over the last week. Above is a sample of a Point-of-View Shot, which shows the scene from the perspective of a character. In this case, it shows the perspective of someone drinking from a water bottle. This shot is a choker, which is an extremely close shot that shows only the subject's face. Here, I have a long shot, in which the subject is shown from a distance so that the surroundings are also visible. Above is a pan shot. A pan shot shows the camera moving horizontally from a fixed point. Next, I have a high-angle shot, which shows the subjects from a perspective that is above them. This is a Head-On Shot, in which the action comes directly to the focus of the camera. In this case, my dog came running towards the camera and went from being completely out of view to taking up the entire frame in the span of three seconds. This video shows an establishing shot, which shows the setting from a di...
This was my final week of filming. After facing the scheduling issue with friends that could help me out, I decided to ask my mom for some help. After explaining what the project was for, she was eager to assist me in any way possible, so I asked her to be my cameraman. We used my iPhone 6 for the camera and, after being unable to find a tripod in the garage, used a stepladder for stability. We shot about 20 different clips of similar scenes from different angles. However, we did face an issue with lighting. For one of the shots, I am seen pulling a backpack from a hook on the wall, but the wall is right next to my front door, which has panes of glass. As it was afternoon in the Sunshine State, the sun was bright and shone in from the door, so we had quite a bit of backlight making for a very shadowed corner. To fix this problem, I decided to use a lamp from my bedroom to get some light from the opposite direction. This managed to fix the problem. Another issue we faced was while bikin...
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