Reflection #8

In this week we had a very practical exercise to do, for me it’s not a new thing that I did learn before, actually I have been going through those in Film-TV 1 last year, that’s the relationship between focal length, exposure and focus. Of course I’m not going to say that I’m familiar with those techniques, but I have taken the advantage from my photography experience that I could understand those knowledge with ease.

The class exercise is very inspiring that how to adjust the ‘right’ focal length, exposure and focus in different situation. The difficulties that we could not imagine is we have to do a lot preparation before the shot, even the shot is just last 1 or 2 seconds, but we had to get it ‘right’, marking down the focal length and focus is the hardest part in the exercise, because we have to figure out how the subject, camera movement and tons of other things that we haven’t imagined would affect the shot. So the Bowen Street walking exercise is the most challenging one, but the most interesting one, the people on the street, cars, bikes, the direction of the subject going… all of them could affect us that how to put the mark. I think it’s the most helpful exercise in class that would benefit us to shoot the videos ‘right and make them looking good in the project.

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