In shot exercise 3, everyone in the group participated acting, camera operating, directing and editing. We got 7 shoots in total finally.

Shot1-A wide angle shot (kind of middle shot) of two characters sitting opposite each other, the woman stands up and looks outside the window. In this shot, camera cove rage is very simple and clear, man and woman sitting opposite each other. Two characters are introduced. And the camera pans slightly when woman stands up. About directing, we make man read a magazine by himself to show audience that they don’t know each other.

Shot2-We have a middle shot of woman looking outside the window. Then she get something her eye and sits back to her seat. When she sits back, camera pans all the way with her movement and stays on the level of a over shoulder shot. Over shoulder shot is taken from the angle of man’s back, from there, audience can see the face expression of woman. In shot1, we also shot woman sitting back to seat, but there are some overlap in shot2. This is OK, because this is shot to edit, not a single shot, and this will also leave us more choices of cutting and editing.

Shot3-A simple panning. Woman takes out her phone to check her eye. Camera pans from her bag to her face. The only thing in the frame in this shot is woman’s face, hands and phone, so it’s a close up shot. I shot this one, I might pan the camera a bit slowly at first. What I should do is to pan camera as quickly as her hand movement.

Shot4-This is really a good one. I did the direction for this one. So we need to move camera to a different location, shooting from a different angle where we can see man’s expression. We have a over shoulder shot. the clever thing about the shot is that audience can see woman’s face expression from the reflection of her phone very clearly, also audience can see man’s face expression from woman’s shoulder.

Shot5-A middle shot from man’s back. Man stands up and forces helping woman. man is kind of blocking woman, audience can see a bit of woman, but can hear her clearly. They two struggles a bit. This makes audience imagine and wonder.

Shot6-Explanation!-camera moved, shot from flank (a different angle from last shot) again. A middle shot, man and woman still struggling, and man saying, ‘nearly, nearly, in your eye…’. Woman keeps screaming. After man sits down too. camera stays still all the time in this shot.

Shot7-A close-up shot of man give the coin(the thing in woman’s eye) to woman. This close up shot makes the whole film more comic (personal thought).

Individual editing

This time, we shoot the scenes together, but edit it individually. After looking at mine lots of times, I found some cuts are awkward timing. This will make the film lack of wholeness and continuity. Also I learned that repetition of some footages is ok. To get the good clips you want, when shooting we could actually keep the camera rolling, and just act again and again in different ways. It is shot to edit anyway. So that is a good way to get good clips.