Getting to know the camera/Skills development

Before jumping straight in and beginning to film our music video, we did some experiments using the camera to film simple scenes and then editing them on Power Director. We did a sequence where someone walked through a door and then sat down to text a friend. We thought of a way to film this to make it look more interesting than just one long take. We were able to use a number of different shots in the sequence, such as match on action (hand on door handle) tracking shot (as girl walks in) and over the shoulder shot as she texts her friend, and then cutting between the shots as she texts. We to shoot this sequence as it is simialr to the idea we have for a part of our music video. Doing this has helped us gain more confidence when using the camera and given us an idea of how long it takes to shoot and construct simple sequences.

Plan before we put the sequence together...