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Camera Composition Presentation

The document provides guidance on videography and composition techniques for interviews. It discusses selecting locations, setting up shots, types of shots like close ups, medium shots, and wide shots. It also covers angles, following the 180 degree rule, using establishing shots, and final tips on focusing, using a tripod, and sequencing shots to tell a visual story.

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Camera Composition Presentation

The document provides guidance on videography and composition techniques for interviews. It discusses selecting locations, setting up shots, types of shots like close ups, medium shots, and wide shots. It also covers angles, following the 180 degree rule, using establishing shots, and final tips on focusing, using a tripod, and sequencing shots to tell a visual story.

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Videography and

Composition

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What To Do...
• Check out location(s)
• Decide best spot to set up
• windows, back ground, lighting
• Start interview (rack, say and spell)
• usually standard medium shot
• Cut aways/re-asks/reporter/subject
• Broll, broll, broll
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• Rule of Thirds
• Eyes in middle third horizontally
• Head room
• Nose room
• Follow shots

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180 Degree Rule
• Axis of Action
• Defines spacial relationships
• Imaginary line from interviewer to
interviewee
• Crossing line is confusing

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•Establishing Shot - always
get one

• Lets audience know where story is


happening

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Close Up - CU

• Draws viewer in
• Lets you inside the character or the
moment

• Medium CU and XCU

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Medium Shot - MS
• Waist up
• Two people speaking
• Non committal shot

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Wide Shot - WS
• Also called LS or Long shot
• FBS/WS head to toe
• Variations EXW, ELS
• Can be establishing

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• Two shot
• Three shot
• Over-the-Shoulder
• Cut aways - reporter/interviewee

Foreground/background

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Angles
• High Angle

• Low Angle

• Eye level

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Angles
• Bird’s eye

• POV

• Dutch Angle

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Camera Moves Use
Sparingly
• Zoom/pull- (a lense shift)
• Pull/push focus (lense shift)
• Pan - left to right - horizonal
• Tilt - up and down - vertical
• 5s-8/10s-5s
• Follow
• Truck/dolly

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Final Tips
• Watch your background - objects
growing out of subject’s head
• No profile shots
• Use space - TV is a visual medium
• Don’t shy away from close ups
• Use tripod 99.999999 % of the time
• Don’t forget to rack your focus/set
your depth of field

Monday, 17 September, 12
Final Tips
• Using shots in a sequence can add to
your visual message, add content to
visually dry story
• Match Action Sequences
• xcu/m/w/xcu
• hand on mouse, person typing,
whole desk with computer/eyes
watching screen

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