Portrait of a Person

“ Imagine you’re sitting at a wooden table with a friend you haven’t seen in a long time and you begin talking.”
-Broken Screen-Doug Aiken


Objective: The Objective of this exercise is to make a 1-2 minute video portrait of a person non-fictional or fictional.

Begin with -
Research:
-Who is this person?
-What do you want to say about this person?
-How will you communicate the essence of this person?
-How is time communicated?

Post all responses to questions on your blog.

-Story Board Idea-Draw your idea out-Gives you a plan to Follow
-Make 20-40 Photographs: person, supporting persons, scout possible settings, objects, photos related to idea etc.
-Print 2 Contact Sheets
-Print 4 photos of your choice (photo quality paper)


Due: Wed. March 4
-Story Board
-6 Prints (2 contact sheets, 4 photos 8.5x11” -photo quality paper

-Post 3 photos on your blog.
Resources:

Video/Film Portraits:
www.shortnstout.net/mandala.mov
http://www.dwell.com/daily/video/20610194.html
Film: Tarnation-Jonathan Caouette.

Consider these shots when photographing:

From- Film Directing Shot by Shot-Stephen D. Katz
• Long Shot, Medium Shot, Close Up
• Master shot: the view point in the scene in which the relationships between subjects are clear
• Establishing Shot: long shot at the beginning of a scene designed to inform viewers of a change in location and to orient them to general mood and relative placement of subjects in scene
• Reverse angle: a shot that turned around approx. 180 degrees from preceding shot
• Point of view shot: also POV presents the viewpoint of the character in the scene
• Shallow focus: shallow depth of field-used to isolate a subject from background and/or foreground
• Detail shot: a tighter highly magnified version of the close up used to show a fragment of a whole subject or a small object in its entirety.
• Deep focus: wide angle lens used to keep extreme foreground and background both in focus simultaneously

Wed. March 4th Sound Demonstration and Assignment