Inspiring a New Generation of Film and Video Professional.
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Classes Include:

  1. History of Film
  2. Writing a Screenplay
  3. Storyboard
  4. Digital Video Cameras
  5. Advanced Shooting
  6. Video Production
  7. Digital Video Editing
  8. Learning Adobe Flash

Learning to Shoot

Objective

Learning to properly frame a shot is fundmantal to creating professional films and videos. This is an example framing shots.

Staging Dialogue Shot - 2 person
The challenge is to represent a 3 dimensional space in the 2 dimensional frame.
Frontality
This is the basic of most film and video. This is where the subject is facing the camera or the viewer of the film. There are many ways of arranging the camera and the subject.
   

The Master Shot

The is usually a wide shot that shows all the actors and action is the sceen. This is important to establish where the actors are in relaction to the world.

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The Medium shot

This helps establish the space and relationship between the 2 subjects. This is who are they and what are they talking about.

learn shoot 2
   

Over the Sholder Shot

Establish distance, very popular,

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Shot/Reverse Shot Pattern

This is where alternating close up are used to follow the subjects conversation.

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Final Medium Shot

The sceen is competed with a medium shot.

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