Camera Lesson 2

During our second lesson Matt gave us freedom on the type of action that we wanted to shoot. In the beginning he showed us quickly how to film an action sequence, this included him coming up to a chair, picking up a small motorcycle, putting it down and walking away. This was purely for us to get use to the different shots that we could use and how later on how to edit a quick sequence like that. After, we got split into groups of three and we started brainstorming ideas of what action we wanted.

My group and I ended up using the toy motorcycle as well, we had an actor, director and camera man. During the process we rotating the jobs in order for everyone to get a taste of each and overall we ended up finishing in about 30 minutes. The whole sequence consisted of an actor walking along as he spots a toy motorcycle, he then go's to pick it up and stares at it, then he puts it back and walks along. We assumed that if we edited it, that it would only be like 15 seconds. We used the 180 degree rule, as it is an essential tool for film and we had learnt that the previous lesson, so we were able to apply it to this small sequence.