Week 6 began with another overview of tips for shooting. We looked at the different ways you can achieve coverage and variety in your filming and discussed what it is that makes a shot effective. Some important things to remember were to hold a shot as steady as you can for at least 5 seconds, pay attention to the horizontals and verticals and keep the eye of your subject in the proportional part of the frame. Details like this need to be taken into account to ensure that a film achieves effective visual engagement.
We have made progress on our group project, having established that the focus of our documentary will be on skate culture, so this class was important for us to get a sense of what approach we could use to film our subject. I think the most appropriate style of filming for this topic should be ‘hap-hazard’, for lack of a better word. When I think of film representations of skating I think of sequences that use a variety of shots that are edited together in a rough and unpolished manner, cutting from wide shots, to tracking shots, to close up shots that show the more subtle details of movement. During class we conducted some group research, finding different clips of skaters from varied sources to draw inspiration from and start creating a vision for our project.
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