Preliminary Exercise - Camera Movement Videos

  For this week, my teammate and I were assigned to select 6 of the 9 camera movement techniques that we sketched in the previous blog post and actually create our videos on them. The purpose of this assignment was to apply our understanding of the techniques in a video. Due to this week being pretty tedious, me and my partner split the video work. I recorded half of the videos on my phone while she did her video work on her phone also. I then took the videos and uploaded them privately on YouTube.

 As far as the camera techniques go, I would say the most uncomplicated one was Push-In. I feel like there wasn’t really any trick to it, my personal belief though is that it could just get easily confused with Zoom-In. Now, the most difficult on the other hand, was definitely Boom. I for sure did not expect it to be as meticulous as it was. Perhaps I was being too picky, but it took me several tries to get the actual boom effect for this one. Regardless, there’s no doubt that this activity was very entertaining. It was very different and I enjoyed it a lot. If you’re wondering, by the way, I’ll tell you right now that I didn’t use much high end technology. The following 6 videos were done purely off my iPhone 11 camera app & a Samsung camera due to the iPhone camera difficulties. 


  • Static Shot: https://youtu.be/Vn-flK01LJ0

This shot is defined as the camera staying still as you film a subject. The action line in this video was for the woman to touch up her make up in the bathroom mirror as I record. As you can see, she executed this action line by fixing her mascara and giving herself a satisfied look.



  • Push In Shot: https://youtu.be/kGTZlOuTGpQ

A Push In shot is exactly what it sounds like: a camera pushing in on a subject without using the (this is NOT to be confused with zoom in shot). In our Activity 2, the idea we had was for the camera to focus on a couple kissing which is what the action line for this shoot was. The married couple kissed romantically behind the rose (which was included for a romantic effect). 



  • Pan Shot: https://youtu.be/R_Pk-GsqbeE

A pan shot is when the camera follows the movement of the subject. The action line here was for our subject to walk out of an apartment building as I recorded. As you see in the video, this gentleman walked out the apartment as I followed him with the camera, but to add an air of mystery, I purposely didn't reveal his face.\



  • Tilt Shot: https://youtu.be/WXgfM3cjMhU



This shot is similar to the zoom shot in the sense that it is very self explanatory: you tilt the camera up or down to focus on a subject. The action line here was to tilt the camera upward to reveal the time. In the video, we see that in a dark kitchen the camera tilts upward to reveal that it is 7:14 in the night.


A boom shot (which is where I personally struggled slightly with) is when you vertically use the camera to reveal something. The action line here was to use the boom technique to reveal a test grade. Seeing that there was many equations, we know that the student got a D+ on their math quiz.

  • Zoom In Shot: https://youtu.be/zwxtQ6GhTsQ

Finally, this shot which is commonly compared with push in shot is where you physically use the camera to zoom in on the subject. The idea we had for this action line was to basically have the camera zoom in on an important part of an email on a laptop. In this shot, a an important Gmail was revealed regarding a job position.

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