Above image from Francis Ford Copula’s movie ‘The Conversation’ 1974. In this exercise I have connected my headphones to my Tascom digital audio recorder and simply listened to the variety of ambient noises that my equipment can detect. The first thing I notice is I can control the mic sensitivity by turning two dials for … More Exercise – Listening
This image is the closest to my own visual dynamic-range. However, to find an image that my camera could capture with it’s own more limited dynamic-range, I took a number of photographs adjusting the light reflected on to the subject and the exposure. This in fact was the last image I took using a silver-reflector … More Exercise – Reflected “bounced” light
In this exercise I had a play around with lighting to create depth-with-light. For the exercise I elected to use a couple of reading lamps that are fitted with LED bulbs that I use for bedside lamps and a LED torch for backlighting. I took these still images using my Nikon B800e with a 24-120 … More Exercise – Creating depth with lighting
https://vimeo.com/220466419 The point of this exercise is to see how a zoom lens can be used in movies for suggesting depth to the audience. As you can see I have taken three small ornaments and lined them up on white paper. Using a 55-300mm f/5.6 zoom lens, I zoomed in and focused on to the … More Exercise – Depth
In this exercise I have used a method known as bracketing in which three exposures of the same subject are made. ideally the subject should not move and the camera must be mounted on a tripod. The first exposure is made at the camera’s / light-meter’s recommended setting then another exposure over-exposed by 1-3 stops … More Exercise – Experimenting with lighting design (Bracketing)
In this exercise I have used story-boarding with the storyboard template that I have downloaded from the suggested BBC link. This exercise is to look at creating a scene as seen from the first-person’s POV so the camera becomes one of the characters in the performance at the audience is experiencing the view through this … More Exercise in visualizing subjective POV
In this exercise I chose a picture created by Ann Miles this photograph was (I believe) taken in Moscow, Russia. A very nice composition of Muscovite’s enjoying open air ice-skating in Gorky Park. Taking this image I have cropped down six separate pictures all suggesting a separate narrative. In a Hollywood movie this first image could represent … More Exercise – Building a story
In this exercise I have chosen to illustrate a storyboard for the classic Aesop Fable of The Hare and the Tortoise. In the very unlikely event you may not know the story: A hare makes fun of a tortoise ridiculing his short legs and slow manner. The tortoise responds by challenging the hare to a … More Exercise – Telling a story
Setting the Scene 