Get creative with your video camera

• To get creative with your video camera get on your knees or climb a tree. Take the viewer to a place they wouldn’t normally go. The ground also serves as a decent tripod. Shooting high will give you a good shot that you know you need.
• Don’t just shoot a tight shot. Instead, go super tight–as tight as your lens can focus tight. These shots are great because they are as visually jarring as they are visually interesting. They also make for excellent transitions between scenes.
• Look for that subject perspective shot. An example of this would be a shot following the feet of a mailman trudging through snow, or following a toddler around from their low perspective.
• Let the action leave or enter your frame. When you do this it allows you to compress time in your video. You can quickly transition to a different scene after the subject leaves the frame.
• You can also turn off your autofocus and try a manual shift-focus shot. Try starting with a blurry shot, and then quickly bring your subject into focus.
• Or try racking your focus from a foreground subject to a background subject. It is pretty effective when done right.
• Layer your shots with foreground elements, just like you would as a still shooter. They are more complex to see, but done well, they really ratchet up the visual variety of your video. These are some great ways that you can get creative with your camera. sunnie25 :)

video summary

I watched this video called adult dodge ball it showed how many adult women and men played dodge ball in a very large gym just for fun in their free time every Wednesday. But before they showed the dodge ball part they showed some small clips of a bunch of teenagers playing basketball. They might have shown this because they want the audience to no what they always used to play before dodge ball started but with adults.The adults are very much in the spirit that they even have their own team shirts and code names.The video was a very good one because it didn't include all of what was happening and only showed some of the action. When someones was getting hit with the ball they didn't show the person who was throwing it but they showed the person who was getting hit, or even the opposite of that. The video also had some people just saying words like "fun" and maybe they had said something before that but the video editor cut that out so its not so long and it also makes sense. sunnie25 :)

Sequencing:The foundation of video storytelling

• The sequence is the foundation of all video storytelling.
• Often videos have a lack of basic sequencing of the video clips Sequences compress time in a video story.
• If you dont compress the video it is very long and veiwers get very bored.
• Proper sequencing gives the person whos editing the video a better way to pace the story by using wide, medium and tight shots.
• When shooting a sequence you have to anticipate the action.
• When you are shooting it is good to run scenarios through your mind.
• It is good to shoot a varity of shots.
• Shoot the action and then the reaction.
• The other thing you should remember is to weight your shots to the tight and super tight end of the shooting spectrum.
• Tight shots make great transitions between two wide shots or two medium shots. sunnie25:)

photo story on the master card arena

photo story

This is my photostory on the master card arena. All together i have 12 pictures which i made into a sliding collage. I added some hotspots so you can hover over the image and read the description and you can also see more of the decription when you click on more. When making this collage i cut some of the pictures to my prefered size. I put in some transitons between the pictures form the library, to match my picture. I also put in some cool text to a few of my pictures so you can tell what it is.:)sunnie25

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master card arena slide show

First i took some pictures of the new master card arena and then i posted them to flickr and then from there i posted them on the my blog as a slide. I took some pictures of the outside and the inside to put together this slide show. I took the pictures in different angles to show the different sides and i alos took some wideshots.:)sunnie25

collage on texture

First me and my partner start off with taking a few pictures outside where there are all diffferent types of textures. We get a few pictures of flowers, trees, plants, rocks and earthly objects. Then by saving them on the computer i choose the best ones for my textural collage. Then i go on the lci comm tech blog and read the article and intrustions that our teacher has left for us. So then i start off by opening photoshop and finding a backround like it said in the article that can portray the feeling of texture with. So i choose a rose from the deviant art website. I choose it because the rose petals has many layers and you can see the soft texture of the pink petals very clearly. Then i choose a picture of rocks because you can see the texture effect of the different types of rocks and then i opened it on photoshop and then by clicking on the MOVE TOOL i move the picture to the rose. When i moved the picture it turned out to be really big so i go up to EDIT then TRANSFORM then SCALE to change the size i prefferd.Then i change NORMAL to LINEAR LIGHT and change the opacity to about 44%. This is so you can see the rose and when you do that to all the pictures they can look like there blended in.Then i go back to EDIT and then go down to FREE TRANSFORM, this is so i can rotate the picture any way i want to. Then i do the same for all the other pictures. As you can see beside the rocks in the collage, is a picture of rocks as well but it was on a wall and i took it from an angle from the top, i think it protrays texture because of the rough feeling of the rocks. Then beside that picture is a picture of many berries which shows texture because of the soft surfaces of the many berries. Then there are two pictures of flowers and i thought they portraied texture because of the petals and colours. then there is a picture of a part of a pine that portraied texture becasue of the many spikes. The picture at the bottom middle of the collage represnted texture because of the flowers, berries and the shape of the leaves together. The last picture in the middle represented texture because of the overlaping of the leaves. Then for the last picture i put a picture of me, i cut myself out with the MAGNETIS LASSO then i slowly erased the parts i didnt get and then i moved it to the collage by using the MOVE TOOL and then resized to the way i wanted it and moved mayslef to the left of the page. I used the picture of myself because of the clothes i was wearing had some texture such as my scarf and jeans. Then i saved it and posted it here so anyone who reads my blog can see my collage. So here is my textural collage, hope you like it. :) sunnie 25

photography intro

Texture can add a significant amount of interest in any picture. Texture is a good idea when you’re taking pictures of rocks, walls, surfaces, someone's hands, or leaves. Generally, the surface characters of an object, e.g. rough, or smooth. In photography, careful control of lighting can be used to describe a surface by adding an obvious quality in terms of depth, shape and tone suggesting three dimensions. In order to make a picture reveal a texture you must make sure the light is coming almost exactly from the side of the surface so it creates shadows in key places.


Linear perspective-The notion of depth given by converging parallel lines, and changes of subject scale between foreground and background elements. A lens with a focal length longer than the diagonal of the film format with which it is used.