Composition Techniques

Composition Techniques are angles that bring interest in a film or in picture. The main four are rule of thirds, framing, unusual angles, and leading lines. Rule of thirds is when the subject of a film or picture is in the top left/right of the picture. Framing is when you take things from your background to create a frame around the subject. Unusual angles is when you take a photo or film and use an angle that is . Leading lines is when you take a photo or film and place the subject where there are lines going to the subject. These composition techniques are important because they bring interest to a photo of film, they also make the final project look unique.

Three Shot Sequencing

Sequencing is very important in photography. Three shot sequencing is when you take a wide, close-up, and extreme close-up and put it in a film or line of photos. The shots go from wide to close-up to extreme close-up. In film making, three shot sequencing is used to draw the viewer's attention and bring interest to the film.

Practice Story Reflection

Last class me, Ian, Nika, and Mia worked on our Practice Story Interview, we did this to prepare us for the Hiki no Film Project. Our interview was about drawing anime and it was called "Kirklyn Draws Anime." Before we started filming we had to get into teams and finish our transcript. Then we went out and filmed our interview, I was asked questions like "Who's your favorite character?" and "From a scale from one to ten how good at drawing do you think you are?" Then we filmed B-roll, my team filmed me drawing my anime character. Then we started editing the film in Final Cut Pro. Finally we recorded the narration and put it in the film.

I think we could have improved by making more B-roll and by having the interviewee restate the questions. We also could have improved the audio by having the interviewee talk louder and clearer. Finally we could have had planned better questions for the interview.

Overall I think we did okay. We could improve somethings and we did some things pretty well. If had the time to film again I think we could improve the interview a little.

Polar Panoramas

    These are the polar panoramas that I did for my G.T. project. First we took 15- 20 360 degree pictures with a overlap of 10% to 15%. Then we imported the pictures and edited them in adobe bridge. Then we combined the pictures to make a panorama, and turned it into a square, flipped and distorted the panorama into a polar panorama. Finally we smeared and stamped the lines from the pictures.