10 Ideas for Classroom Video Projects. “… ten years ago, not one student in a hundred, nay, one in a thousand, could have produced videos like this.
It’s a whole new skill, a vital and important skill, and one utterly necessary not simply from the perspective of creating but also of comprehending video communication today.” (Stephen Downes) If you follow my Twitter-stream, you know that I spend a lot of time viewing, collecting & sharing videos. In this post, I share ideas on certain types of videos that I’ve gathered and how educators might use related methods or styles to engage students in constructing and deconstructing media while becoming critical consumers and producers of digital media. Camera Shots. There is a convention in the video, film and television industries which assigns names and guidelines to common types of shots, framing and picture composition.
The list below briefly describes the most common shot types (click the images for more details). Notes: The exact terminology varies between production environments but the basic principles are the same. Shots are usually described in relation to a particular subject. In most of the examples below, the subject is the boy. EWS (Extreme Wide Shot) The view is so far from the subject that he isn't even visible. Looking for ideas for a short film? My Log Lines. Log lines for all of my short film scripts, with links to more details about each short film screenplay.
10 short films to make you laugh, think and/or cry. The original storyboard panels for the Batman: The Animated Series intro. Film Studies 101: The 30 Camera Shots Every Film Fan Needs To Know, Feature. The cinematographer's art often seems as much black magic as technique, taking a few actors milling around a set and turning it into something cinematic, evocative and occasionally iconic.
Amidst all the voodoo and mystery, however, there is concrete science behind those money shots so we've identified thirty of the most important camera shots to help you distinguish your dolly zooms from your Dutch tilts. Aerial Shot An exterior shot filmed from — hey! — the air. Cesar Kuriyama: One second every day. In 'Hugo,' Scorsese Salutes A Movie Magician. Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) is a 12-year-old orphan whose life changes after he encounters Georges Melies (Ben Kingsley) in his magical toy store in a Paris train station.
Jaap Buitendijk/GK Films hide caption toggle caption Jaap Buitendijk/GK Films. EarlyCinema.com. 17th Century Use of Magic Lanterns 1827 First still photograph taken, using a glass plate technique Claude Niepce's photograph the View from a Window at Le Gras took nearly eight hours to expose. 1832 Joseph Plateau and sons introduce the Phenakistoscope.
Like other toys of its kind, the Phenakistoscope was one of the more successful illusion toys. Pictures on one disc viewed through slots in the other, appeared to move when the two were spun and viewed in a mirror. 1834 Another illusion toy - the Zoetrope was introduced by William George Horner. Sequence of a Narrative. About - Slow Dancing. Slow Dancing is a series of 43 larger-than-life, hyper-slow-motion video portraits of dancers and choreographers from around the world, displayed on multiple screens.
Each subject's movement (approximately 5 seconds long) was shot on a specially constructed set using a high-speed, high-definition camera recording at 1,000 frames per second (standard film captures 30 frames per second). The result is approximately 10 minutes of extreme slow motion. This project came to fruition in 2007, but had been been gestating for much longer. It's not always easy to point to the specific factors that bring a new work, or the impulse to create one, into being. The overlapping issues, concerns and passions that merge with opportunity are not always obvious. How To Export HD Video in Premiere Pro for YouTube and Vimeo. I often receive questions about filming and editing, and have decided that I will post the answers to the most common questions here to help others.
Expect more posts like these in the future and please let me know what questions you would like to have answered. Before digital cameras became popular, editing a video was as simple as cutting the actual film strip and splicing it to another film strip with tape. Student Captures What Happens When People Are Told They Are Beautiful. How would you react if someone told you that you’re beautiful?
18-year-old Shea Glover, a highschool student from Chicago, conducted a social experiment to find out. She posed people in front of her camera and then told them “I’m taking pictures of things I find beautiful.” Show Full Text. OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version - Official. Improving Footage with the Warp Stabilizer in Premiere Pro. Got shaky footage?
The Warp Stabilizer in Premiere Pro can save the day when dealing with shaky handheld video. Everything is a Remix Part 1. Horror and terror. Figure 21 from Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Caption reads "FIG. 21. —Horror and Agony, copied from a photograph by Dr. Duchenne. " The distinction between horror and terror is a standard literary and psychological concept applied especially to Gothic literature and film.[1] Terror is usually described as the feeling of dread and anticipation that precedes the horrifying experience.
By contrast, horror is the feeling of revulsion that usually occurs after something frightening is seen, heard, or otherwise experienced. A Rap Song About Girls And Money That Your Daughter Should See. Some of my favorite animated shorts. A Guide to Basic Cinematography. Filmmaking Techniques. Enjoy A Few Moments Of Messed-Up Messages, Created And Shared By The Beauty Industry. Here It Comes. Movie Scenes Before and After Special Effects.
History of film. This article is about the history of film as an artistic medium. For the history of motion-picture technology, see History of film technology. New film techniques that were introduced in this period include the use of artificial lighting, fire effects and Low-key lighting (i.e. lighting in which most of the frame is dark) for enhanced atmosphere during sinister scenes. As films grew longer, specialist writers were employed to simplify more complex stories derived from novels or plays into a form that could be contained on one reel. Genres began to be used as categories; the main division was into comedy and drama, but these categories were further subdivided. The years of the First World War were a complex transitional period for the film industry.
D. The desire for wartime propaganda created a renaissance in the film industry in Britain, with realistic war dramas. During the 1980s, audiences began increasingly watching films on their home VCRs. Early period[edit] Birth of movies[edit] Becoming attractions: A brief history of film trailers. A Short List of Film Terms. • Department of English • By David T. Johnson Part of being a good film student is knowing the language of film. Film vocabulary flashcards. Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling. (notes on) biology. The use of Light in Movies.