Camera Workshop

Today I took place in a Camera Workshop and learnt some useful tips to take into consideration when filming.

• I firstly learnt that using the rule of third when filming someone in a scene is very important as it would make the audience feel as ease and comfortable. Therefore, if positioning of the actor was centre screen, it would make the audience feel uncomfortable and awkward as they would feel the actor looking directly at them.
•  We then looked at zooming. We tested zooming in on one of our class mate's face - an extreme close up. This is so that the top of his head and the bottom of his chin were not in the frame. This would also make the audience feel extremely uncomfortable as the extreme close-up portrayed a sense of anger, fury and annoyance. Also you can see every bit of emotion on the actors face, so you can really get a sense of how they are feeling.
• Next, we looked at filming a scene of two class mate's, whilst one of our class mates was filming and positioning the camera in different ways - for example : two shot, close up on one of the characters, and close up then on the other character. This gave us all a better idea of what positioning's of the camera worked for what scene and how close your actors need to be together to get a decent shot of your actors.