Camera Work Reflection

  The process of learning camera work consisted of researching and reading about the different methods of camera work. While reading about different camera works, I took time to take notes and define each of the movements and angles and watch videos to get a visual of what they look while being utilized. In addition to this, I learned through rotations and matching the different camera works to their definition to recall them.

  The process also consisted of doing two projects: the camera movements project and the camera angles and shots project. In the camera movements project we were told to create a storyboard using the prompt, "surprise" that had to include six different camera movements such as, pan, static, tilt, push in/pull out tracking and one movement of our choice which ended up being random movement. In the storyboard we were told to draw out the shot, identify the name as well as what is happening in the shot. Once our story board was done we would move on to filming each of the shots and then editing. The experience was really enjoyable while it allowed us to be creative and put what we learn into perspective. 

  Some challenges faced in the first project had been factors like the setting the filming was taking place in since we sometimes aimed to hide subjects but couldn't due to the sizes of certain things given, as well as the lighting. Successes that we had were executing our projects genre that we wanted to give through editing and scenes. Overall, this project helped me understand how to approach and create scenes with angles to fulfill a prompt. It helped me understand how certain techniques create different emotions and narratives throughout a film.

   In the future, I would look over my shots and also determine how much of an effect they have on the narrative and audience while some shots may work better and produce a stronger impact than others.

  The second project consisted of instead taking pictures of an inanimate object to create a narrative through the angles of which it is taken at and then putting it into a PowerPoint to identify the shot/angle and explaining its role and purpose. For this project I also had to create a storyboard and explain what shot it is and what it shows.My experience with this was fun, yet challenging since I had to brainstorm a lot since inanimate objects have no emotions, but through shots and angles I had to create them.

  Challenges that I crossed while making this was identifying some of the shots I had since airpods are very small and were my main subjects. Differentiating long shots versus close up were sometimes difficult due to this. Some success I had though, was getting the plot across through each scene, helping the inanimate object "carry" emotions. In this second project, I learned ho to further connect angles and shots to emotions, strengthening my understanding of how they go hand in hand.

   For future projects like this, I will aim to correctly identify shots when it comes to smaller objects as well as use a wider variety of angles of shots to produce a interesting, engaging narrative.