5.11 - Getting to know your tools

Warm-Up (15 min)

POTD

QOTD:

1. What is your favorite movie? Why do you like it?

2. What is a movie that you have seen recently and NOT liked? Why did you dislike it?

3. Do you have any experience making videos or movies?

VOTD: Use the following words in an example sentence.
Tripod: A three legged stand used for controlling and stabilizing a camera.
Clip: A single unedited shot.

Part 1 - Review of Shots, Angles & Movements (15 min)
Reviewing with video examples.

Part 2 - The 9 or 6 Digital Cameras (10 min)
3 types of camera in the school
Still/video - good for images & importing, bad for sound
SD video - good for importing, bad for sound
HD camera - good for picture + sound, LONG IMPORT TIMES
The more you know about the camera the less magic it is.

Part 3 - Importing and Exporting (10 min)
Join Group. Students film a 10 second video. To prove import and export skills. Groups of 3 (camera, grip, subject).

Part 4 - Abstract with all Angles, Shots & Movements. (30 min)
Students will be given an object to shoot from all different angles, using all of the shot distances (possible), and with all of the camera movements defined last week.

Part 5 - Import, Export & Save. (20 min)
Students will import their raw footage into iphoto. Export to the desktop and save to their 3 group members student servers. Next week each member of your group will edit one version of this abstract project.