week 3 assignment

The 2 people I chose to look into their blogs are Trent Fetzer and Eric Kenton. The shots I commented under for Eric was the head-on shot because he didn't use the typical subject and chose to be direct and use something he enjoyed as well in his shot which made his clip unique to watch. I thought that his shock shot had a very different style in shooting this shot.

In Trent's blog, the shots that were interesting to me was the reaction and the flash shot because even though it was done with the instructions exactly, it was turned into a comedic form. The shots gave me a feeling of humor and enjoyment. Also, the shots gave me a sense of closeness as if I was there during the shot which formed a stronger connection with the subject.

Week 2 assignment blog

Dolly Shot: It seemed very simple at first but I realized that it's a bit harder than expected because you have to have your shots in sync to your walking pace as well as paying attention to your surroundings.

Cameo shot: This shot was taken very quickly because it's very simple because the subject is still and the shot focuses on them. Overall the shot does not take much time.

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Follow shot: This example is difficult because you need to see that you're keeping the subject in the frame and keep pace with them but paying attention to your surroundings.

Point of view: This example is not that difficult because putting your phone close to your chest allows you to keep your camera balanced and simply just walking and interacting with someone else. I enjoyed this shot the best because it is interesting to actually shoot this kind of perspective.

Two Shot: This example is simple because you can easily place your camera down at a certain angle that includes both people. I didn't struggle much with this shot.

Over the shoulder shot: This shot is more work than others because I realized that I have to include more individuals as well as capturing both people and focusing the camera to be off to the side.

Close- up: This example was simple because the camera focused on the water and the hand rather a moving subject.

Extreme close-up: This example was somewhat easy to shoot because I could easily focus on the subjects face but holding my hand steady as well as getting an angle in which her face bright to be seen was hard to figure out.

pan shot: This example seemed fairly easy at first but realized it far more difficult than I first thought because I couldn't take shot slowly or have a specific subject in my film shots.

Low angle shot: This example was quite difficult due to the fact that I can't tell where exactly the camera is focusing on or whether or not I'm in the frame. 

Close-shot: This example is was not tough to capture because I consider this angle to be the standard form of way videos are shot majority of the time.

Establishing shot: This example is a natural style to take videos when it comes to taking landscape videos of a place is in this format.

Why I'm taking Aice media studies?

The reasoning behind me entering this course is that I wanted to continue on with Aice and Media studies seemed like an interesting class (plus I was 99.9% sure I was going to fail Milner's class ~.~ ) so I admit I was looking for a backup to Aice Euro too... but OVERALL it was due to thinking that this class was different from other Aice courses because its all about creativity and personal touch to your work which is something I enjoy. Hopefully, throughout this class, I learn to use different forms of video and photography forms. Also, I believe this class will allow me to think outside the box and do new types of works that I'm not extremely used to but willing to change that through this class. Over the years, I stopped using a creative perspective but now in this class I can try to get back into it which I know I will enjoy.((: