Planning final project: Skills Audit To Date

What Have We Learned About Equipment, Software And Blogging Skills...

Equipment:

In preperation to our opening of a teen movie, we have have learned a number of equipment related skills that will help us produce some great shots. We learned this through our film remake (Breakfast Club).

Tripod-  In order to shoot great looking video, you need to control your camera, and one of the best ways to wrangle your recorder is to pop it onto a tripod.

Video Camera- 

EWS (Extreme Wide Shot)
The view is so far from the subject that he isn't even visible. Often used as an establishing shot. 

WS (Wide Shot)
The subject takes up the full frame, or at least as much as comfortably possible.

MS (Mid Shot)
Shows some part of the subject in more detail while still giving an impression of the whole subject.

MCU (Medium Close Up)
Half way between a MS and a CU.

CU (Close Up)
A certain feature or part of the subject takes up the whole frame.

ECU (Extreme Close Up)
The ECU gets right in and shows extreme detail.

Cut-In
Shows some (other) part of the subject in detail.

CA (Cutaway)
A shot of something other than the subject.

Two-Shot
A shot of two people, framed similarly to a mid shot.

(OSS) Over-the-Shoulder Shot
Looking from behind a person at the subject.

Point-of-View Shot (POV)
Shows a view from the subject's perspective. 

Software:

We also a fair deal of practice in editing our films through the 'Breakfast Club' and 'Higher Learning'.

Final Cut Pro 
  In class, we had plenty of practise using final cut pro. We learned a variety of editing skills as the 'in' and 'out', sound imput, imbedding titles, e.t.c.

Blogging: 

Our blogging has improved consideribally from the start. Organistation is the main skill required for a fantastic blog. Also, using a variety of technologies to represent the different tasks we have done.