I decided to place this video into my blog to show the differences in how the angle of a shot being taken can make the audience feel. The camera angles up towards the woman to show power, while the camera angle lowers on the man to show weakness/vulnerability. It's interesting as to how each different camera shot can give a certain type of feel to the video itself.
In this video I was able to film my cousin and one of her friends performing to the song "Primetime" by Janelle Monáe ft Miguel. The lighting that we used in this scene came from the headlights of our car. Although it might have been better if the light was in front of them the car was only able to hit them from the side due to the fact that there was a gate in the way of the car being able to be in front of the two subjects.
This is an example of a "Over the Shoulder" filming shot that I was able to capture at my nieces fiafia night. Fiafia night is basically just a day or night that the group that is hosting performs to raise money. In my example I have T.C (Tangaroa College).
This is another experiment that we did with the performing art students. In this moving image I got to practice with Panning. Panning :swing (a video or film camera) in a horizontal or vertical plane, typically to give a panoramic effect or follow a subject. In my own words panning is just being able to move the camera horizontally as the subject remains in frame or even steps out of frame.
In this video, we collaborated with the performing art students ( dre and teone ) to work more in depth with our moving image tasks. We took different camera angles while filming the performing art students, this was a low camera shot angle which gives a certain powerful feeling to the two dancers. Mistakes in the film would be the amount of head room and nose room that was given to the subjects which wasn't enough because of the fact that they got cut off from the video a few times.
Our task as a group was to take footage showing an example of backlighting and of motor zooming.
Backlighting : Is when the light hits the subject from behind giving the subject a Silhouette type of look.
In our example we filmed Mikayla outside using the natural light to hit her from behind to make it difficult to see her features.
Motor Zooming :No
matter how nifty your wide-range, multi-speed, auto- zoom feature may be, the
fact is that on-screen zooms are a dull waste of viewer time and professionals
don't use them except in two circumstances.
As we did more research on moving image we realised that motor zooming isn't the best option to use, the best thing that you can do when you want to focus in on a person is to Dolly into that person.
