Lens Composition and Camera Angles

 What do long shots, medium shots and close up shots mean in relation to each other?

    They all relate to when framing a subject most of the time a person. When framing them they almost are always having the face in the shot.

Shot Framing

 What are the key differences between full, medium and close up shots?  How does this apply to over the shoulder shots?  Two shots?  How do different lenses affect these shots?

    When doing  full body shot it is important to make sure you aren't cutting off any part of your subject, a medium shot is when you frame your subject from the waist up allowing yourself to cut off part of your subject. With a close up shot that goes from the best up cutting off majority of your subject besides the face. When it comes to over the shoulder shots you can apply these types of shots when framing the subject that is in front of the shoulder. All of these could be applied with a two shots too when framing both subjects standing parallel to each other. Different lenses with provide different affects when framing those shots such as, defining your subject when using a wide angel lens but that also puts the background in focus too, with a 100mm lens if blurs the background more because of the aperture. Lenses will change the perspective of your shots.

Benro Tripod Review

 What are three key things to remember after watching this video when using the Benro tripod?

    The top plate and tilt locks are very close together so you should make sure you are using the correct ones and getting used to it. When counter balancing you should never put it at zero and you should be very precise when counter balancing because when you unlock the tilt head and tilt it one way or another it will not fall instead it will lock in place. 

Lead Room

 What is look room?  What is lead room?  What are they important to the video you are shooting?

    Looking and leading room is the amount of space in front of the subjects face. it is important to ensure your audience is looking at the focus points you want, following the rule of thirds. When watching two people speaking to each other your eyes naturally dart back and forth to follow the conversation and with looking and leading room is helps to make sure that your following the space between them and not the space that is behind them. To give the viewer an uncomfortable and uneasy feel you will put the subject right up against the frame making your eyes lead to that tight space.

Headroom

 What is headroom? Why is it important to the videos you are making?

    Headroom is the space between the top of your subjects head and the top of the screen. It is important to video-making because it can give you a different feeling depending on how its framed. If your cutting off the subjects head it will give you a claustrophobic feeling. But if you have TOO much headroom it will make everything feel unbalanced and awkward 

Hand Holding Camera

 What are three key tips to hand-holding your camcorder?  How can you implement these starting today?

    Three key tips to hand-holding your camcorder are; holding your camera steady, holding it close to your body and relaxing your shoulders. Ways I can implement these tips starting now would be to practice being steady when holding the camera, ensuring the camera is close to my body to make sure it is steady, as well as being less tense to make my shoulders relaxed. 

Framing Good Shots

 What is headroom?  What is look room? What lead room?  Why are each of these important for your composition?

    Headroom is the amount of space in a shot between the top of the subjects head and the top of the frame. Look room is the amount of space that you leave in front of your subject on screen. Lead room is the moving object you follow on screen. These are all important for your composition because it follows your subject which is the main part of your shot so all these aspects will ensure that your subject is the main focus of the shpt.

Gain in Videography

 What is gain in video?  What is it used for?  What are some risks using it?

    Gain is the difference between output and input video signal, it will amplifies the sensor sensitivity video signal. It increases and decreases the brightness. Risks of using it is the more amplified the brightness is the more noise you bring into your image. It will add a grain the more you amplify.  

Focus & Exposure

 What do focus and exposure do? How do you check to see if your subject is in focus when shooting? How do you check to make sure your subject is exposed correctly?

    Focus pulls your subject into focus and makes sure it in its most clear form. Exposure ensures that your image/video has the best lighting and proper lighting instead of being overly lit and under lit. To check if your subject is in focus you check the view finder and when you want to pull focus you set your camera to manual focus, zoom in tight on your subject, and mess with the focus ring until your subjects in focus, you then zoom out all the way for your shot and it should be in focus. To check if your subject is exposed properly you check the view finder and if it is not exposed properly you frame your shot correctly and adjust the aperture(iris) to make sure everything is lit correctly.

Focusing

 Why is focusing important?  What is the best way to focus a video camera?

    Focusing is important because it ensures a clear shot and is the "hallmark" for a professional video-making. The best way to focus a video is by zooming in fully into the subject and focusing on their eyes and then zooming out. By focusing on their eyes it almost guarantees a focused subject the whole time because the eyes are the "windows to the soul".

White Balance

 What is white balance? What color is outside lighting vs. inside lighting? Why is it important to white-balance your camera?

    White balance is making sure your camera knows what white is and not in the setting of your shot as well as the color temperature of the shot. Outside lighting is warmer tones that inside lighting which is cool tones. It is important to white-balance your camera to ensure that the color temp stays and that the white tone remains the same. 

Horror Film Challenge Status

 How did your Horror Filmmaking Challenge go over the week?  What were some of the challenges that you encountered?  How did you overcome them?  What do you still have left to do?

    The horror challenge went very well! I had a lot of fun doing it and I found my group was very solid and hardworking. Challenges we faced during it was scheduling conflicts, I was unable to film with them so we compromised  and I helped write and edit it because I was unable to be in it. We still have to do finishing touches in the edit. 

Camera Unit Goal

 Take some time and type up three goals that you have to complete during this unit. How do you plan on accomplishing these?

    Goals I have for this upcoming camera unit would be to be more confident when using a camera and using a manual exposure for video. I would like to learn how to properly hold a camera steady when filming. Lastly, I would like to be well versed in the world of operating a camera and knowing all the aspects of it. I plan on accomplishing these by paying so much attention during our lectures and practicing outside of class. 

The Rule of Six

 Summarize each of the six when to make a cut.  Why do you think cutting on emotion and story is so much more important than the other four? 

    Editing on emotion values how you want the audience to feel with the edit. Editing for the story values context and if the edit you are making help move the story forward or make sense for the story. Editing on rhythm is the beat of the way your edit moves and if you can watch the edit with no sound and you can follow the beats and rhythm of the edit. Editing for eye trace takes into account where the audiences focus will fall, so you want to make sure when you edit you are placing focus on where you want the viewers attention to go. 2D space plane editing is the XY axis of your focus points as well as keeping with the 180 degree rule. 3D space editing follows the 180 degree rule while also ensuring the depth of field and space with your shots. Emotion and story are the most important rules because it's what keeps the viewers engaged, the normal viewer isn't keeping track of the rhythm more than the story and emotion they are focused on the feeling of the edit and the story that carries the edit through. 

Time Remapping

Summarize the three techniques that he taught in this lesson? What is a way you could use each of these individual techniques going forward with your video's that you create?

    When remapping use keyframes to select what parts of your clip you would like to change the speed of and what part you would like that change to stop. Add ramping to your clip to avoid a jarring reaction when there is a sudden change in speed. Adjust your keyframes after you've placed them to get more precise and particular changes. I could use all of these quite a bit when wanting to slow down a shot for dramatic purposes but still using the same clip as well as making the transition to that speed change smooth to avoid a jarring and sudden change that throws the viewer out of the world I have built.