Preliminary Exercise: Camera Framing

      Camera framing is how you place or position subjects and objects in shots. It about composing an image rather than just pointing the camera at the subject. The eight camera framing shots are one/single shot, two shot, three shot, four shot, crowd shot, point of view shot, over the shoulder shot, and insert shot.

      Two camera framing shots are a one/single shot and three shot. A one/single shot is when a shot captures one subject. Single shots can be set and framed in any shot size you like, just as long as there is only one character featured within the frame and a dirty single shot is an over the shoulder shot. A three shot is a medium shot featuring three characters. Really important in adventure films, or really any film that has a group of characters and an enormous time drain to shoot 3 singles just to show every character.

      Sage W. and I worked on the camera framing shot. I did the first 5, while she did the other 3 shots. Sage W. and I did most of the work at home. The pictures were taken at school, the carnival, and at home. To do this powerpoint, I used a laptop at school and at home and Sage W. used a laptop at school and an i-pad at home.