About two weeks ago in class, our knowledge of shots and angles was tested through a quiz. Our objective was to tell a story (where the central character is an inanimate object) and develop tone using only 15 static shots.
I worked on my project with my teammate Du, and she and I tried to come up with a simple enough story to tell while focusing on storyboarding our shots and the meaning behind each one. We told the story of a pen being thrown in the trash, then found by someone new and the pen regains purpose in the end. We approached this by using multiple high and low angles to emphasize emotions of belittlement or dramatize minor details but we also used coloring in post-production to further intensify the emotions of pity and then of joy.
Reflecting back, it seemed like some of our classmates may have had similar project ideas. However, we decided not to double back once we found out because we had already developed our own project and did not want to start from scratch. In the future, I would like to make more effort into writing something less obvious and more original, to cause no overlap between my peers and me. Yet, I will acknowledge that the project was completed under a rather short time frame and the test of knowledge here was shots and angles, less storytelling.
Furthermore, my partner and I mislabeled a shot in our project as a "two-shot" when it was really a medium shot. We had earlier misunderstood a two-shot as any two subjects framed equally to suggest a relationship, however, we now know the subjects in a two-shot must be main subjects in order to be considered a true two-shot.
Other than that, my partner and I were pretty pleased with our work. It was a good practice to begin our journey in media creation when it comes to our choices in shot framing.
Here is a link to our Shots Quiz Project:
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