Sense of Place

What is the world of your story?

Assignment: Film a minimum of 50 shots ranging from 10- 60 seconds to create a visual journal of your location.

To communicate your ideas and feelings in a clear way, try to think critically about your location after your initial viewing.  What statement about the location do you want to make?  Can you make the formal elements of your images reflect your feelings and observations about this location?  After you begin shooting images and looking at them on the LCD screen, you might realize that that your images say something different than you intended—be willing to change or adapt your shooting style and your ideas. A large part of aesthetic intelligence consists of an awareness of accidents and a readiness to employ them to creative effect

VISUAL ELEMENTS:

Sound- high, medium, low, noise, talking, cacophony  etc.

Composition- Placement of the subject within the frame- center, off-center, selection of subjects to include, cropping, etc.

Depth of Field-which subjects within frame are in focus, shallow focal plane or deep focal distance

Camera Angle- Placement of the camera in relation to the subject-eye level, higher, lower, etc.

Color and light- bright or low density/ light or dark/

Pace- rhythm, movement, time, speed

Perspective- Close-up or long shot

Texture- Focus, Dimension- proportions, range, confines, size, scope

Unity- Balance, equilibrium