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We were given the task of being able to improve our camera handling skills through an excersise that required us to take a series of shots that consuisted of using the 180 degree rule, which means the film ing of a scene will either be carried out left to right of the frame or right to left depending on the directors choice.
We shot around the campus and created a series of continuous motions, in our case it was running and therefore the aim of the excersise was to not only get to grips with our camera skills but to also insert the 180 degree rule of shooting from one frame to the other whether it be left to right or right to left.
The challenging part of this excersise was the camera handling and position as their were times when I did not get all of Mike in the framme, if this was being shown on television it would have cut the frame from the limb and we as an audience would therefore miss the bottom half of Mike. It was hard to judge the correcxt distance for the camera to be postitioned as sometimes I would either be too close of too far away.
Another mistake made was that I took a mid shot of Mike where he reaches into his pocket to get out his phone and then a cutaway is needed to show a close-up, but instead of doing to separate shots I did it all in one take, as a result of this it made it very difficult to edit.
If I was to do this excersise again I must remember seperate shots to enable better quality of shots to make the editing easier and improve the position of the camera and also enable the film to start rolling and use about 30 seconds of film before we start shooting to make sure that the main character is completetly in the frame and that nothing is missed out.
