Last term, we started studying how to use camera in the most efficient ways to show your work. Camera is one of the most important tools which we can use to present our work in the way we (as artists and creators) want the audience to see it. Camera helps to pass your vision and message. We discussed principles of composition, shot size, camera angle.
In order to understand these concepts better, we started by drawing storyboard for already existing movies. As for me, I chose film “Lawrence of Arabia”.
This week we proceeded to study camera language. And to answer on the question “Where I should put my camera?” first you have to know what you want to say and what is this concrete scene about. There are 4 main aspects we can use: focus, focal length, geometry in frame, and camera movement. The task to improve our skills was to recreate a story board for alredy existing scene, adjusting the camera angles in order to make a each frame more appealing.
Another assignment for this week was to create two Storyboards of “5 + 5 challenge”. The purpose was to convey a clear story or a specific emotion using exactly 5 shots, where each shot lasts exactly 5 seconds. We were given a simple scene: a guy in a bar. I was struggling to think of an interisting story within 5 shots long, so I used technique which we studied in class.
Here are my 2 storyborads:
After presenting our assignment, we exchanged our storyboards with each other and turned it into camera in Maya, using the provided scene and character.