Monday, December 1, 2014

Six Shot Sequence

The six shot sequence contains, as one could easily guess, six different shots. They are as follows (but can be in any order): close up, extra close up, wide shot, medium shot, extra wide shot, and an over the shoulder shot. 
Each one is slightly self-explanatory, but I'll describe each anyway:
--Closeup: Frames the face but without cutting any portion of the head out of the frame. This shot is used to capture emotion and reactions.
--Extra closeup: A shot focusing on the hands or feet, which must be performing some kind of an action. 
--Wide shot: Frames the entire person, with a bit of room above and below the person so as not to cut any part of them from the frame.
--Extra wide shot: Frames a person and their surroundings. The person is much smaller in this frame than in the standard wide shot.
--Medium shot: Frames a person from the waist up or down, with enough room above their head or below their feet to not cut them out.
--Over the shoulder: The easiest to describe by name. It does what it says; it captures what the person is doing from over their shoulder. This is usually framed so that the camera faces the direction the person faces, but can be inverted to where the camera shows things behind the person.
I learned that repetition is NOT good for video. Notice the really quick transition of the shots of the feet? Originally, they were each shots of [name undivulged] kicking the ball, but why jump-cut to 3 kicks? Secondly, some shots toward the middle of the video seem to be jump-cuts and are fairly noticeable. This was an error that couldn't be fixed for the time I had, but is easy to look past.
I plan to apply my knowledge of these kinds of errors to my next video so as not to encounter them again.

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