Filming Techniques
Each clip should be about 3 seconds long or less.
- Time Lapse (example)
- Try to place your phone at a creative angle on something so that it does not move or walk around holding it at eye level for at least two minutes
- Insert Cut
- Film a wide subject shot and then cut to a closer shot (e.g. medium shot) of the same subject and angle
- Rack Focus (example)
- Focus on a foreground subject and then focus it to a background subject (not more than one time)
- Foreground Slider Shot (example)
- Film three different locations from various angles and views of different subjects moving the camera horizontally or diagonally while keeping it steady and smooth. This is not a horizontal pan but instead, you walk sideways while filming.
- Whip (example)
- Watch the whip filming tutorial but only filming instructions part and stop it when the student starts to edit. Then go out and film both a horizontal whip and a vertical whip. Then edit this effect in iMovie for now and can use a cross fade transition to make it look smoother if needed. Later for your travel video you will use Premiere.
- Speed Transition
- Film an action scene of something or someone moving (be creative) and then edit them going from Slow > Fast > Slow (example). You can change it from Normal > Slow > Normal or any other combination.
- Split Transition
- Use an object match cut with a horizontal pan to change the scene in a creative way. You may not zoom in or move the camera forward to fill the frame with the object match cut; must use the horizontal pan (example 1 & example 2).
Cutting Effects
- Watch the 30 second video montage of the sports' clips for the commercial and continue watching and learn how to create the following cuts
- Double Cutting (soccer/runner) & Time Remap (jumper) combined
- Time Repeat (football)
- Butterfly Cut (stairs)