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This course is essentially a master class in shot planning – a weekend where you will learn how to make the most out of your camera work through planning and economizing your shoot.
According to the website, this is what your weekend will deliver:
Course is suitable for directors at all levels, and shooting exercises include variations to accommodate different levels of experience. Bring a stills camera and a video camera. For the purpose of the exercises, any simple, consumer-grade camera will do. Best if it has a zoom lens.
SATURDAY: Camera Techniques I
10am-12am Composition and Coverage
• Visual composition: seeing in thirds, head space, negative space, perspective lines
• Visual Story-telling: foregrounds and backgrounds, open & closed framings
• Conventional scene coverage: master + inserts, shot types and angles, the 180 rule and when to ignore it
• Lenses: lens choices, racking focus
11-11:30 shooting exercise
11:30-12 review shoots
12-1 lunch
1-2:30 The Moving Locked Shot
• Creating multiple shots with a single, locked shot
1:30-2:00 shooting exercise
2:00-2:30 review shoots
2:30-5:30 The Invisible Moving Camera
• The economy of the moving camera
• Thinking non-sequentially
• Drawing lessons from animation
• Creating accidents on purpose
3:30-4:30 shooting exercise
4:30-5:00 review shoots
SUNDAY: Camera Techniques II & Shot Planning
10:00-12:30 Cool Moves: Expanding the Tool Box
• The push, track-around, countering and converging, reveals, hand-offs, pivots, parallax, back-parallax, and other techniques
11:00-12:30 shooting exercises
12:30-1:30 lunch
1:30-2:00 review pre-lunch shoots
2:00-5:30 Creating Shot Diagrams
2:00-3:30 Shot notations
3:30-4:00 Judo Girl: review shot diagrams and watch film
4:00-4:30 diagram a scene
4:30-5:00 review diagrams
To learn more go to http://theindependentfilmschool.com/directing_the_camera.html
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