A Lesson in Mobile Storytelling from Nokia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLhWQXEWp2w

Work out your story

https://s3.amazonaws.com/takeaction2013/Vimeo/YourFourPs.pdf

Getting the Shots

The Rule of Thirds

?

http://www.stevestockman.com/5-tips-shoot-better-video-instantly/

Get Better Video By:

1. Thinking in shots

2. Getting close to the person/action before recording

3. Not moving the camera while shooting

4. Making sure the brightest light is behind you, not your subject

5. Keeping it short!

Thinking in Shots- Shot Types

http://revision3.com/filmriot/cameratechniques

Long Shot (or Full Shot)

Shows entirety of the subject as well as itssetting

Head to toe for a personhttp://revision3.com/filmriot/cameratechniques

Medium Shot

Hips (not knees) up for a person

http://revision3.com/filmriot/cameratechniques

Medium Close Up Shot

Mid-to-lower chest up for a person

http://revision3.com/filmriot/cameratechniques

Close Up Shot

Top of shoulders up for a person

http://revision3.com/filmriot/cameratechniques

Extreme Close Up Shot

Fill the shot with the subject

A closer look at something than we wouldtypically have.

http://revision3.com/filmriot/cameratechniques

Shot TypesCloser is better for viewing on a

mobile screen. It is better not to

use the long shots (and perhaps

even the wide shots) for mobile

screens

Shot Sequences

Putting different types of shots together in a

sequence that helps to tell the story.

In opening scenes you will often have a

sequence/progression from wider shots,

(giving more “setting” information) to closer

shots (giving more detail/emotional information)

Making Rice Paper in Cambodia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1F88mDW_oM

Shot Types & Sequences (2)

Mindy McAdam’s “5 Shots 10

Seconds” guide to shooting

https://www.jou.ufl.edu/faculty/mmcadams/video/five_shot.html

5 Shots 10 Seconds

Hands ShotClose-up

https://www.jou.ufl.edu/faculty/mmcadams/video/five_shot.html

5 Shots 10 Seconds

FaceClose Up (answers “Whose hands?”)

https://www.jou.ufl.edu/faculty/mmcadams/video/five_shot.html

5 Shots 10 Seconds

Hands & FaceMedium Close Up+ (answers “What’s going on?”)

https://www.jou.ufl.edu/faculty/mmcadams/video/five_shot.html

5 Shots 10 Seconds

Over-the-ShoulderMedium Close Up (Gives sense of subject’s perspective)

https://www.jou.ufl.edu/faculty/mmcadams/video/five_shot.html

5 Shots 10 Seconds

“Other” ShotSomething creative/helpful to telling the story

https://www.jou.ufl.edu/faculty/mmcadams/video/five_shot.html

5 Shots 10 Seconds

Count it down!!! Shots seem long when shooting but not

long enough when editing

10 and 9 and 8 and 7 and 6 and 5 and 4 and 3 and 2 and

1 and

Shot ListingWhat is a shot list?A list of shots

Why do it?- So you think through which shots would best tell your story- To make sure to get those shots and aren’t sitting in front of your computer editing and wishing you had gotten more/different shots

Shot ListingHow do you do it?

- Break your story/script into scenes

- Determine what shots would best communicate that scene to viewers

- Write it down- Subject matter to be shot- Type of shot- Angle of shot- Etc.

Shot ListingHow do you do it? (continued)

- Have the list with you and check it off when you are shooting and/or gathering media

The visual alternative- storyboarding

Shot ListingHow do you do it? (continued)

- Have the list with you and check it off when you are shooting and/or gathering media

The visual alternative- storyboarding

Storyboarding

Vimeo Video School

http://vimeo.com/17451230

Hop To It!

Now it’s time to break your story

into scenes and start shotlisting/storyboarding it