In this week’s class, we did some shooting exercise in a group form. I did some camera operating and acting. And I found that I’m not smooth enough with the camera movement, so I will do more exercise about it. The problems I have contains timing and speed. I couldn’t choose the perfect timing to move the camera sometimes. Also, I could’t catch up with actors in time sometimes. More practices must be done, there is no other way to improve this.

Besides this, I learned something about camera movements. In mona’s shooting, I did camera operating once, there is a shot a drunk guy is against the wall and slowly sitting onto ground. In this shoot, I chose to move the camera up to down, exactly the same way of the drunk guy. Then mona asked me to just tilt camera down is fine.

What’s more, when Tan did his single shot, (I think it is a really great one!) He hand held the camera, use the his sight point of view (POV) to shoot the entire scene. four different people at four different spots in a hall way doing different stuff, camera just move slowly into the hall way and has a very quick medium close up shoot of what they are doing and then move on, the entire camera movement is very causal and smooth, I feel like I was the person who pass through that hall way. It comes out like a single shoot plus a long shot.

Also Pual said one thing also remind me of framing. I think it’s something like ‘anywhere can be an elevator’. Audience can received the message from lots of aspects, like sounds, dialogue, settings, etc. when you have a very tight framing, audience usually pay more attention to the actors and what they do, what they say. so my you can just choose a wall with a television on it. So this elevator has a television in it. We can add lots of editing in it afterwards.

These I talked about is just like some little sparks which remind me of more different ways of shooting I can apply into my exercise to achieve different effect.