Week One Questions
WEEK ONE BLOG QUESTIONS (chp. 8)
What do they mean by the phrase "shooting sequences"? Can you explain a sequence of 2-4 shots.
They say "the human eye does not pan or zoom"...what do they mean by this, in relation to shooting news stories?
What do they mean by the phrase "shooting sequences"? Can you explain a sequence of 2-4 shots.
They say "the human eye does not pan or zoom"...what do they mean by this, in relation to shooting news stories?
posted by Jonathan Lillie at 4:29 PM
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Shooting sequences are a series of shots that imitates the way in which we would view a scene and process what we see. An example of a 2-4 shot sequence of a girl reading a specific book would be a wide shot of the girl in the room reading the book along with other students, a medium shot of just the girl reading the book, and a close up of the girl holding the book, and maybe an extreme close up of the words on the page.
The human eye does not zoom or pan. We look at objects in sequences. Moving our heads in a "zoom" or pan" would make us dizzy-- instead we look at things at a whole and then focus on the particular thing that interests us... and then focus in on another object/person, ect.
This in turn, is the way in which we should shoot our news stories.
1)A shooting sequence is a sequence of 2-4 shots that helps the audience process the information as they would if they were there. A sequence of shots usually includes wide, medium, close-up and extreme close-up shots. For example a sequence for a traffic story might be a wide shot of a street of traffic, a medium shot of a few cars, a close up of one driver in traffic and an extreme shot of just a wheel showing the "stop and go" of traffic.
2)When a person walks into a room they don't take a pan of the room, instead they look at the room in sequences. Simularly a person doesn't slowly zoom in on a item that they are looking at, but jumps focus directly onto the item. So when we are shooting we should shoot for the way that the person would tak in the scene if they were there.
as a side note the quote that stuck with me most in this chapter was "You want the viewers feel as if they were at the scene. At the same time, you want to show them somethign they wouldn't have noticed if they were there." )pg.117)
I like to think as a shooting sequence as looking down an ice cream cone. First you see the cone's top, a whole view of everything. Then the look further down, past the lip, you see the sides, smaller. Then the inside tip of the cone, the final part of shot. This would be a three-shot sequence. It starts off broad, then medium, then tight. tells a story. you know?
panning and zooming is unnatural to the human eye.
Panning takes to much time. I have never walked into McDonalds, stood at the door and slowly turned my head to view the entire room. I didn't need to. I could just fill the rest of the information in later. And for zooming, i don't sprint through the doors and run to the counter and jump to see the menu. I don't do that, humans don't see life like that.
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