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.