For this shooting exercise, I tried for two times. The first time is not good. Something wrong with framing and angel. I didn’t get the shots I want exactly. One time I was talking to Lisa about my exercise. She gave me some advices on it which sparks me. The problem of my first work is that the framing is too wide and the angle is not good enough to emphasize the action. What I did in the second try is to tight frame up and find a good angle that emphasize the action.

In this exercise there are only four shots from different angles. The first one, a close up shot from side, Phoebe is taking things out from/into her purse. The action is very well seen, and the depth of field of the objects on the desk is right on spot, blurry in the front, clear at the background. The second one, a wide shot from above Phoebe’s head, this shot looks wide, but it emphasizes the action very well and artfully. In the framing, there are only the desk full of objects poured from the purse and Phoebe. Although it is wide, it is still tight and neat. The reason I say it emphasize the action is that audience now can be more sure that Phoebe is putting her purse away. The third one, a close up shot of Phoebe’s hand searching the purse. It clearly emphasizes on action. The last one, a wide shot of sitting room with Phoebe sitting in it. In this shot, I intend to use a wide shot to show the living environment of character. Also the emphasized actions shows the character’s personality and emotion in some degree.

The problem I ran into in this exercise is the lighting. Some of the footages I got is over exposed, also the entire lighting tends to be yellow, the color of the sitting room lights. What I need to remember is that to check exposure with zebra pattern and do the white balance before shooting. Later when editing, I used the tools in color correction, fast color corrector and RGB color corrector to help with the lighting, it turns out to be ok.