Cameras, Tripods, and Shooting the Vocabulary!

Students will acquaint themselves with their newly-assigned digital cameras, 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
11. Dolly Shot (aka Trucking or Tracking)
12. Pan (left/right)
13. Tilt (up/down)
14. Following Shot
15. Zoom (in/out) 

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