Composition and animation

Animations allow artists to follow compositional inspiration without worrying about realism. 

The JUmpcut and frame angle semantics

 

Basic Camera Angles and Shots

 

DIG- short narrative

 

Mastering Composition- A review

This short video goes over all the fundamentals on composition. Learn the rules and why they matter before breaking them. 

 

Aspect Ratio

 If you are using still images in your video, make sure they have the correct aspect ratio or they will look distorted. 

Shot reverse shot- getting in close

 

Using Cell phones; seeing light and setting in your domestic environments

 

Although this tutorial is about the static self portrait, it gives so many great tips for how to set the scene - working with what you already have access to- your own domestic environment. 

These ideas are very simple- you can do it. Before you shoot, assess the setting you have to work with. 

Directing styles and particular looks- the Auteur idea- Wes Anderson and David Lynch

McArthur Park - Cutting on Action to music

MacArthur Park from sarah lewison on Vimeo.

Kuleshov effect

Three pairs of images from the film experiment carried out by the Russian psychologist Lev Kuleshov around 1920. Kuleshov discovered that audiences interpreted the actor's expression (the right of each pair, and all identical) in relation to the image it was paired with (left of each pair). The actor was perceived as hungry, sad, romantically intrigued, etc., depending on what was edited together with the actor. Kuleshov's results significantly influenced the development of montage theory.


Wherein two unrelated shots are connected in order to create a meaning, or to provide subjective motivation to a character.

performance

Visual Story Chapters 1, 2 and 3 (Most of part 1) Powerpoint

LINKED Chapter 1 (D2L)
Visual Story Chapters 1 and 2 Powerpoint Download

Visual Story Chapter 3 to page 42 Powerpoint Download

Rhythm, Graphic Vectors, Motion Vectors

Graphic Vectors: (Give me the Food music video by Miss Platnum)

 

 

Close-ups in Rhythm

a video made by a collaboration between americans and indonesians about their common ground

student graphic match videos

 

by Alex Froelich

Abolition of Work from Naoki Izumo on Vimeo.

The Abolition of Work by Naoki Izumo

framing Interviews

About framing interviews.
Here are some examples:

A professional cameraman Simon Wyndham gives tips on framing for interviews: "1. Try to vary your interview composition. In 16:9 don't be afraid to go in closer and crop the head of the interview subject. It is part and parcel of using that frame shape. Try slight angles. You don't have to perform a full dutch tilt, but sometimes a subtle angle can make a dull looking shot look a bit more dynamic. Try having your interview subject standing somewhere instead of sitting down..... more

the FRAME and the SHOT

MAGNETISM OF THE FRAME

The edges of the frame exert a pull on the content in the frame. Here is a reading with more examples of how this works: FRAME MAGNETISM