Stop Motion Film

We are still working on with the set designs and characters. This is where we

will shoot our experimental video. A house made of wood scraps, a brown

cloth background, a doll, these are just some of our materials for the video.

Just a short brief about the story,  it is about house, an ordinary one and sweets as its visitors. 

These sweets goes inside the house. The house actually

has legs. When the house gets full, candies tries to push their way in until the 

legs gave up and cut loose. 

The house symbolizes a person. It have abused itself with many sweets,

the legs could not anymore handle the weight inside and was cut off. 

Just like with diabetes, once obtained to many sweets there will be 

complications, cutting the leg off, hands, etc.

A picture of me, Ian and Hannah ironing the brown cloth. :)

Basic Camera Movements

Pan 
    Move the camera horizontally left or right. In making a film, you do pan in order to follow a subject or show the distance between two objects. For smooth effects, use a tripod.

Tilt
   Move the camera up or down without raising its position. The movement is just like panning, but the different is the position where it is moving, showing the up and down of the subject.

Pedestal
   Physically moving the height of the camera up or down, and it is usually done on a tripod. You pedestal the camera up or down to get the proper height you prefer. You pedestal up, shooting a large object and pedestal down if shooting a small object.

Dolly
   When dollying, the camera is set on wheels and moved towards or back from a subject. Usually when filming, videographers use wheelchairs or some tracks in order to do a dolly shot.

Crane
    Crane works and looks is similar to a construction crane. Usually used for high sweeping shots or to follow the action of your subject. This shoots from the bird's eye view. The camera is swooping down from above. Directors use this for street scenes like from above the crowd, or above a herd and then move down to eye level.

Zoom
   Zoom is just zooming in and out. You press a lever to do it. The lever controls the lens mechanism inside the camera. A zoom lens gives you the option of having both telephoto and wide-angle lens in one camera. Zooming is to bring objects at a distance closer to the lens or to show size and perspective. Film makers don't do continuous zooming in and out because it is annoying to audiences or viewers. Usually the zooming in and out is done smoothly.

Arc
   The movement of the camera covers a semi-circle around a subject. The camera does a semi-circle of the subject and in the process is able to reveal new details about the background that the subject is standing in front of.

Language of the Lenses

When buying a new DSLR camera, we would also like to consider the lenses.
So there are five types of lenses, they are: 

                                                   1. Standard Zoom

                                                   2. Zoom or Super Zoom

                                                   3. Wide Angle

                                                   4. Close-up or Macro

                                                   5. Prime

                      So let's define each type.

                                Standard Zoom

The standard zoom lens is the most common lens of all.
The focal length is 18mm-55mm.

This lens is typically used by beginner and amateur photographers. 
This type of lens gives you a variety of options for compositions. The quality of the
lens is still good enough for a starter to learn how to use DSLR cameras and lenses.

                               Zoom or Super Zoom

   

                              

The difference between a standard zoom lens and a super zoom lens is that

a super zoom lens has greater focal length. This is usually used for long-range 

photography. It can be used in shooting places in the wildlife, 

sports, and also music.

Popular length lens of this type are 

5mm-250mm, 70mm-300mm and 75mm-300mm.

            

                              Wide Angle

Wide angle lenses are used for capturing large subject areas. It could be 

landscapes, outdoor scenes, large groups and nature. Lenses having focal length

smaller than 50mm is wide angle lens. Its purpose is to capture larger views in tight

spaces having a great wide angle view photo. 

                              Close up / Macro

This type of lens is used to shoot close-up images. Macro lenses

are created to focus at much shorter distances capturing detailed photos and textures. 

Mostly used in nature photography shooting small objects such as insects flowers 

and captures immense detail and clarity. These lenses are also applied

 in scientific photography and product photography.

                          Prime

Lastly, prime lens have fixed focal lengths, this means that you can't 

adjust the zoom of the lens. What you need to do is to move closer, or move further 

away in order to capture what you needed. The good part of this lens is that it gives

the highest quality and sharpest photos. And for the worst part, this is too expensive. 

Focal lengths of prime lengths are 14mm, 35mm, 50mm, 80mm and 100mm.

Before buying lenses, consider what you really want, high quality photos, close ups, wide angles, and etc.

Animated Short Film

"Heavenly Appeals" a short film by David Lisbe

Just one funny 3d film. Since the story of the animation is set in heaven therefore

the setting should also be heaven-like. Clouds, angels, gate, etc. should be present depending 

on what the story is about. Lighting should be fresh.
But then you can still distinguish the colors and mood.
Perspective has also given acknowledge.
 Camera movements has been changed through out.

Some of us would feel bored if the duration of the movie is focused 

just on the same spot. To add some spice up or should I say to

make it not look boring, different angles should be shown depending
on who gives the message to the audience or making the act.

The image duration between the clips was just about

2-5 seconds. 

Live Action Short Film

Watch this Live Action Short Film by Dan Trachtenberg titled

Portal: No Escape.

This is one fantastic short film! Very futuristic indeed! 

What I love about the movie the most, is that they have used

all the proper elements of cinematography. 

My favorite of all would be the lighting and also the staging 

and composition. I am amazed on how they used cool colors 

for the lighting to make it more futuristic. The props are so awesome!

The perspective is also very obvious since it's not a 2d film. 

Great camera movements. I love the timing and change of angles 

because it makes it more lively and thrilling.

My favorite shot!

Excellent staging and composition for this.