Last meeting of term 1

Hi Everyone,

Today we had the last meeting of Term 1 for the year.

We saw some terrific videos this morning of the recent Berrinba outing as well as Will's London Experience and Roy's recent visit to RAAF Amberley. It's very good to see members adopting some of the filming and editing techniques we've been talking about this term.

As our main topic, we talked about Composition of our videos.

Rule of Thirds

Golden Ratio also known as the Fibonacci  Spiral

Use triangles to frame shots

Full Shots

Medium Shots

Close Shots

Balanced Shots

Leave some headroom to balance the clip

Not too much or the clip looks unnatural

Don't cut the Chin

For Close shots it's ok to cut the top of the head

Person looking out of shot looks trapped and confuses the viewer

Person looking out of shot looks trapped and confuses the viewer

These were a few tips we talked about Composition this morning.

We're now on a break. From Term 2, we'll only meet on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month. Term 2 starts officially on Monday 11 April so we therefore resume again on Tuesday 19 April, being the 3rd Tuesday of the month. Keep producing your videos over the break and bring along some 1minute videos using some of these composition rules.

Next Meeting (and last for this term) 22 March

Hi Everyone,

I hope we'll be able to see lots of videos from Berrinba last Tuesday. I am looking forward to those.

The main topic we'll be discussing is one of the most important subjects of any film maker:

COMPOSITION

We'll be looking at a video from another Brisbane filmmaker who will show us how to properly compose our shots.

We look at framing a shot

We'll explain using lines

We'll look at how to use patterns

SEE YOU ON TUESDAY

Tuesday's Meeting

On Tuesday, we expanded the topic of our excellent guest speaker, professional filmmaker  Hayden Lowry from the previous meeting, namely GIVING OUR VIDEOS THE FILM LOOK.

We took a brief history lesson of how come we use 24 (25) frames per second in connection with a shutter speed double of that 1/48 (1/50). Simply because at those figures, a film looks reasonably true to the eye and it is most economical in film and developing costs, so these values have been retained even now that most of us use digital video recording methods.

We looked at the various picture ratio formats film makers use on their productions.

We looked at colouring our videos to give them 'The Film Look'. Especially the 'In Look' Blue and Orange.



We also discussed how we can turn our videos from 'Day' to 'Night' look.

Finally, Roy showed us how to capture smoke in front of a black screen and superimpose it onto a video clip. And Rod showed us his video of his recent cruise experience.

So on Tuesday 15 March 2016, we go on a film shoot as follows:

LOCATION:

BERNINBA WETLANDS

WAYNE GOSS DRIVE

BROWNS PLAINS 4118

TIME:

9.00am

The aim is to not only film the wildlife and flora but also to concentrate on filming each other, filming. A bit like 'Behind The Scene' documentary And then give it The Film Look in post processing.

SEE YOU AT BERINBA ON TUESDAY 9am