All Video Editing Session Notes

1/2/2021 

• We are going to learn all the basic processes and learn to develop our own styles. 
• Work out how video links to our own projects 
• Work on our portfolio and salon exhibition 

Todays plans

• Intro to framing and composition 
• Basic camera functions
• Uploading footage and introduction to framing task 
• Review
• Ongoing "video mission"

We need to think about where subjects are placed within the shot. 

• Angles and camera tilts 
• What angles we use to take our shots
• Composition 
• How our shots look aesthetically 

Rule of thirds

• Sectioning my image into 3, in order for it to be symmetrical, straight and offset. 

Lighting 

• There are different forms of lighting to experiment with

The next session 

Introduction to shot types and camera movement. 

Visual and Technical Significations

• Visual: The various elements of designs that helps express the films vision 
• Technical: The elements relating to how a film is made 

Shot Types

Camera Movement 

Sound 

Editing 

What do we think about when we hear a western film shots:

• Wide
• Distance between actors
• Red and orange 
• Sand 

Codes and conventions (unwritten rules)

Film Codes

• Genre
• Symbolic codes
• Written codes
• Audio codes
• Technical codes

Introduction to shot types

• Long shot
• Wide shot
• Medium or Mid shot
• Medium close up 
• Close up 
• Two shot
• Over-the-shoulder
• POV
• High angle
• Low angle
• Aerial shot
• Tilt/Dutch angle 

Camera Movement

• Pan 
• Tilt
• Dolly Slide
• Crane 
• Freehand 

Task for next week

Film some stuff for next week which we will use to edit next week.

• Consider shots
• Establishing shot
• Medium
• Close up
• Camera movement 
• Pan 
• Tilt 
• Tracking