Preliminary Exercise 7: Storyboarding Camerawork Day 2

Introduction Paragraph

In this exercise, we went through the storyboarding process, this process consisted of making 16 shots sketches which had varying features like sizes and angles. For the storyboarding process, you need to feature every key point as well as add captions detailing what's happening within the panel. Some skills that are used to make a storyboard is communication in visual and verbal ways, sketching, imagination, and well planning. The objective of #3 and #4 is to plan the rest of the 16 shots and be able to plan a clear short story with differentiating angles and film techniques. The categories of the camerawork techniques used in our assignment consisted of shot sizes like extreme close up, medium shots, close up, medium full shots, and it consisted of framing like insert shots, two shots, and single shots. We also used composition to build our setting and background for the film such as balance and deep focus.

 Reflection Paragraph

The activity's objective was to learn the process of production of media through storyboarding in the development stage of filming. Me and my partner learned a lot about planning throughout this assignment and we also learned how to make a consistent well thought story with the storyboard throughout day 2. This day was easier as we were more used to it rather than day 1 where we had to set up the basics for our short story in the first two story boards. We accomplished the goal by consistently working on the assignment and dedicating time towards the planning stage, me and Dorine. B worked hard on this storyboarding and it came out successful. I did the drawing and writing while my partner gave me the shot sizes, angles, composition, and guidance throughout the assignment. My partner worked on examining the rubric given which shown a list of what to work with and we collectively planned shots together with this. We only used our laptop to review the exercise, the rest was done throughout communication in person and we think we did adequate on this. We learned how to storyboard properly and with learning that we have new skills in planning for a film.