Preliminary Exercise 11: Camera Movement Storyboard

 Introduction Paragraph

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Today we are continuing our camerawork research! On our last blog, I shared the camera movement PowerPoint slides that my team and I created. For this blog, the objective of this assignment was to:

• Learn more about the important concepts of camera movement, and to use camerawork, action lines, and mise en scene to plan our frames.
• Apply the concepts previously mentioned in preparation for our Opening Film Sequence
• Use our technical skills and student success skills.
• Work together with our teammates during the planning process of our videos.
• Creating our storyboard.

To illustrate camera movement on the storyboard, my teammates and I worked together to plan the camera movements for each shot. We used movement techniques like the Dolly Push-In shot to show suspense, or the Tilt shot to show dominance and invoke fear in the viewer. These techniques are used to make the audience feel a certain kind of emotion. Is it suspense? Is it fear? It all depends on which shot you use, and if you use it correctly.

To complete this assignment, we used our previous 4 storyboards to come up with an improved, shorter story that we were trying to tell. We also used our PowerPoint for extra information about camera movement techniques.

Each team member worked flawlessly on this assignment, I wouldn't be able to complete it without them :). I illustrated the storyboard itself, while my awesome teammates Lexi M and Marley B helped with research. Khloe R. came up with the amazing ideas for the shot sizes, camera work, action lines, etc. 

It is essential to create a storyboard because it helps you visually see the story you are trying to put out. It allows you to try your creative ideas on paper first. It's like a blueprint to building a house. If you had no blueprint, how would you know how to build the house properly? It is a team effort to create a storyboard, you need your artists, your directors, and also the people who will review the storyboard itself! 

THE STORYBOARD

Reflection

To restate the assignment, we created a storyboard illustrating 9 shots from our 4 previous storyboards. In this exercise, I learned how camera movement techniques drastically change the shot. Without it, the shots would be boring. It helps the viewer feel so much emotion. 

In Preliminary Exercise 12(the next blog post), we will be using this storyboard to film 6 videos (out of the 9 shots). This is really useful because it will help guide us through our filming process. 

Thank you for reading! I will see you all in the next blog post. P is logging off.

Work Cited

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiyBo-qLDeM