FOURTH ESTATE: Monday and Tuesday, April 10 / 11 types of shots and learning to see

Learning Target

I can analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.

Photographers use their cameras as tools of exploration, passports to inner sanctums, instruments for change. Robert Draper, National Geographic Photographer.

In class today: Identifying three essential types of camera shots and learning to see.

When we have finished practicing as a class, please go to the following link from Time magazine, where you will find a collection of 68 shots. Please open a word document. As you review the image, please number up and identify the type of shot the photojournalist used and the poignant aspect of the image. This may be an aspect of an individual, setting, lighting, pattern, symmetry, texture, depth of field, rule of thirds, phi grid and lines. Take your time. This is due at the close of class on Tuesday.

Time best journalism images

Close ups:
A close-up or closeup is a type of shot, which tightly frames a person or an object.

Close up tip:

Go to any spot of nature, such as a garden, an empty lot or a park, and arbitrarily pick a small area (20x20 feet is good). Then spend an hour there finding close-ups.

Medium Shot: The medium shot is a general, all-purpose shot. It allows the viewer to pick up on movements and gestures. Body language is important to conveying emotion, and the medium shot remains close enough to capture that emotion. The subject is in the middle distance, permitting some of the background to be seen.

Establishing Shot: a shot to orient the viewer and establish a sense of place. They are way to establish mood and viewpoints.

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