Camera Exercise

What we did?
In this exercise we did all the different camera shots and how it is they are used through out film, these were,

• Long shot (LS) - A shot that is from far away
• Medium shot (MS) - Where the person is not close up but not far away
• Close up (CU) - A shot where something is up close
• Extreme close up (ECU) - Extremely close where you can see just there eyes, for example
• Point of view (POV) - Seeing what the character is seeing
• Over the shoulder - Looking over the shoulder of someone to see the other person talking 
• Low angle - Makes someone look powerful
• High angle - Making someone look small and powerless
• Pan - Right to Left / Left to Right, Goes round
• Tilt - Titling the camera up or down
• Crane shot - Very high angle looking at someone/something e.g. helicopter
• Tracking shot - Following someone around with the camera
• Rolling shot - Like someone is falling, moved side ways

In my group we videoed every shot. After we had videoed the shots we edited them altogether so that you could see which ones where what. The reason that i done this was being you are able to identify which shot is what. We chose to shot every shot, the reason for this is because we wanted to make sure that we had tried doing each shot at least once. 

We did not tell a story with each shot, the reason for this is because we just wanted to make sure we got every shot in the video, and just to get a feel of what it was like to use the camera and the different shots. However, i believe that it was still successful, this is because we included every shot within our video. Not only this but it also allowed us to all get used to using these shots and understand how to and where to use these shots. 

What we did well and didn't do well on:
I believe that in this video we did the shots well and we understood every shot and how it should be used. However, i believe that we need to improve on how to use the camera and to try and put it into a video the next time we are filming. Overall, i feel that we all tried our best and we did to the best or our abilities, we just need to work on a few things to make sure that the next view is better and more realistic. 

In the group we tried to make sure that veery shot that we did was as steady as possible, however, we was not able to achieve this with every shot, so i believe that this is something we may need to work on. I believe that each shot was taken appropriately but i believe that we need to improve on how we film it and where we are filming them.