Know Your Camera - and Camera Shots!

Students will acquaint themselves with their newly-assigned digital cameras - or the photo features of their smartphones - learnign the ins and outs of settings, downloads, footage organization, etc.

Then, they will produce a "Video Vocabulary" consisting of examples of the following shots:

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1. Wide Shots (Wide, Very Wide, and Extremely Wide)
2. Mid-shot
3. Medium Close Shot
4. Close-up
5. Extreme Close-up
6. Cut-ins & Cut-aways
7. Two Shot
8. Over the Shoulder Shot
9. Noddy Shot
10. POV Shot

Shots shoudl be about 6 seconds each to illustrate the angles an characteristics of each shot - and SHOULD be labeled with TITLES over each shot.

Students will export the video and post on YouTube - and will embed the YouTube video in their blogs with comments.

Next class session they will add camera movement shots to the "Video Vocabulary" to to video project

1. Dolly Shot (aka Trucking or Tracking)
2. Pan (left/right)
3. Tilt (up/down)
4. Following Shot
5. Zoom (in/out) 

Examples can be seen here: http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/