COURSE DESCRIPTION
As you face an infinite number of ways to capture a dramatic scene on camera,
learn how to choose shots that add emotion, beauty, meaning, and economy to your camera work. Topics covered include:
• Your
DP: Tips to choosing and working with your cinematographer
•
Shot types: Choosing shot types, sizes, heights and angles, that infuse the narrative
with a subjective interpretation of the story, and maximize emotional effect
• Controlling information:
Using the camera to dole out information wisely, to create emotional involvement, suspense, humor, and more
• Lenses:
Choosing the right lens for the right moment
• Orientation
in space: Working (and not working) with the 180 degree rule in simple dialogue scenes, complicated group scenes, and
scenes in which the line changes or moves
• Orientation in time: Learn how to control and play with time for dramatic effect
• Framing: choosing strong and expressive compositions, and creating a 3-D experience on a 2-D screen.
• Scene
coverage: Plan economical scene coverage that emphasizes relationships, character, and good story-telling. Adopt creative
and dynamic coverate for static dialogue scenes
• The moving camera: From simple tilts and
pans to dollies and jibs, learn how to fully exploit the moving camera. Find out why more elegant and complicated shots are
often quicker and more economical. Learn how to plan camera moves that assist the story and don't call attention to themselves.
Create footage that is seamless, cuttable, dramatically meaningful, and is easier and faster to execute.
The workshop includes talks, clips, demonstrations and
exercises in shot planning. Find out why production
value comes from skill and not from machinery. Course
assumes no prior experience with camera work.
BRING A CAMERA: If
you have a camcorder, please bring it. For our purposes, a small, consumer-type camcorder is best. Camera must have an optical
zoom. Bring tapes, and be sure your battery is fully charged. If you don't have a camcorder, a simple stills camera with an
optical zoom will do.
COURSE IS BASED ON Hollywood Camera Works. WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE 40% OFF
LIST PRICE! 
