Week 1: Composition
Welcome
514 is going to be a fantastic course. Let’s review the syllabus.
Website Overview
This is the website we’ll use for class. There are plenty of links for you, you can follow along with the the class with week-by-week pages, and there are assignment reminders.
Please complete the Google Docs Form.
Assignments and tips will appear on the main 514 page. You can be notified of website updates/news via RSS or Twitter.
Please sign up for Dropbox. We will be using Dropbox to submit assignments in class.
Rules of Composition
There are some really easy and fundamental ways you can make your work look and feel more professional. In this project you will take 9 pictures with a digital still camera that demonstrates these shot types:
1. Close-up……………………………CU
2. Medium Shot………………………MS
3. Wide Shot………………………….WS
4. Establishing Shot…………………EST
5. Closure Shot………………………CLO
6. Reverse Shot………………………REV
7. Over-the-shoulder Shot………..OS
8. Point-of-View Shot………………POV
9. Cutaway/Insert Shot…………….INS
Look at these photos to review.
Rule of Thirds
When composing a shot (photo or video), divide the frame into thirds. Imagine a tic-tac-toe board, and align important subjects with the lines. Watch the slideshow to learn:
Flickr
We talked briefly about Flickr in class. Here are details about it:
Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository.[2] As of June 2009, it claims to host more than 3.6 billion images[3], up from 3 billion in November of 2008[4]. Be sure and visit my Flickr photostream.
Here is a great example of rules of composition:
