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ARTICLE DIRECTING THE CAMERA WORKSHOP, NYC

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:37


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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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