Composition Techniques

Composition techniques are used to add interest to your different shots. There are a variety of different composition techniques. The four main ones are rule of thirds, framing, unusual angles and leading lines. Rule of thirds is when you divide your image into three parts, and place your image either to the left or to the right. Framing is when when you create an image using things in the background or foreground to create a frame around your subject.

Three Shot Sequences

In excellent videos, sequencing is a variety of shot types in order with interesting angles that show what is happening. Sequencing keeps the viewer watching. To have good sequencing you need a variety of different shot types. Those shot types include wide, medium, close, and extreme. To add more great sequencing, you can use different composition techniques like rule of thirds and unusual shots. For a great video, you need to first start planning your shots so that way you can film exactly what you need.

While making our three shot sequencing video, we ran into some problems. One problem was that we weren't ready. We made a plan but we didn't exactly follow it.

Spherical Panoramas

 Here are my two finished spherical panoramas that I made during G.T. class. The images for the spherical panorama on the left was taken at maui during my trip. Then the images for the spherical panorama on the right was taken on Kaua'i at the beautiful beach Aliomanu. To make these spherical panoramas, I had to first take overlapping images that started and ended around the same place. Then after importing them onto the computer we edited them on adobe bridge. Then we compiled them into a panorama image using PhotoShop's PhotoMerge plugin.

Next, I resized my rectangular 360 degree panorama to be squared and filtered using polar coordinates. Lastly we used the elliptical marquee tool to select the final spherical panorama's and feathered it by refining the edges. Then finally I applied a black or white background before saving the final composite image.

Practice Story Reflection

Our practice story was based on Lele's passion for singing. We chose this topic as our practice story because of her beautiful voice. We also chose this as our topic because her love and passion for singing. We interviewed her and asked her some questions about her singing. Then we caught some videos of her singing and writing songs. Then finally after editing everything we made it into our practice story.

Some positive things about our story was the amount of information we had from Lele's interview. Another positive thing we had in our story was our shot of the interview. The lighting of our shot was perfect and we were also available to have a microphone in our shot. The microphone was a great add in because it added to the topic. Although we had a lot of positives, we also ran into some problems. One of our problems was that our transcript was created after we filmed, so when it was time to film we weren't as prepared on what we were filming. Another problem we had, was that we didn't have enough B-roll to keep the story interesting.

Overall, I think we did good for our first video making in a short period of time. Next time we are making another video, we will just make sure we know what we are filming before just filming random things that we may not use. But to my team members, Hershel Weiner, Loren Weiner, and Leleaka Anakalea, good job team. I hope that I will be able to do more projects with this team.