The Shooting Exercise

For the shooting exercise you will need to capture multiple shots of the following situations, objects and places.  You need to capture each one of these things with multiple shots.

1. People
     Walking from the class to the lift
     Riding the lift to the first floor
     Riding the escalator to the ground floor
     Walking to the sculpture garden

     Two or more people talking with each other

     Other groups shooting video

     Two or more people playing a game (I have some balls, a frisbee and a foxtail for play)

2. Objects
     A car in the parking lot

3. Places
     Sculpture Garden
     Fountain
     CVA Building

Get a variety of shots for each action, object or place.  Give yourself something to edit to make an interesting piece of video.  Shoot some basic shots and then get a bit more creative if you would like.  Use anything you have learned from watching television, movies and YouTube and combine it with anything you have learned in class.

REMEMBER: think and compose strong images within your shots.  Use the Rule of Thirds, Angle of View and Field of View (WS, MS, CU, XCU) to mix up your shots.  You are working in a three-dimensional world so you should shoot video using all three dimensions.

REMEMBER: Be very careful with using auto focus and auto exposure with video and using auto gain with audio.

We will not be able to finish today so shoot as much as you can and then we will see if we can finish next week.

I will stay in the sculpture garden area to answer any of your questions. 


Dr. W