Class Sessions

In the first tutorial of Module 3 we will focus on getting comfortable with your camera, developing your recording discipline, and practicing editing in the camera. With ‘Editing in the camera’ we refer to the skill of applying cinematic principles of editing whilst making shots. Ideally, these shots could be played as a sequence without the need for post-production editing or perhaps with minimal tuning of the edges. Make sure you watch the tutorial video Editing in the Camera before this tutorial session [MAX, perhaps link this. Also, this video needs to be listed in this module (preparations), but is currently in the Pop Up Field School section].

In-Class Exercises

Equipment distribution: Student who are borrowing cameras from the university will receive their kits. Student who have their own cameras should bring them.

Recording discipline in practice: Think about the technical adjustments that you must make each time you make a shot. Practice making these adjustments multiple times in different conditions. You will be practicing these skills whilst doing the in-class exercises and the Field Study Assignment, which will help you develop these adjustments as a routine.

• Focus/depth of field/hyperfocal distance
• Aperture/ND filters/Gain/backlight
• White-balance and Color-temperature and
• Lens characteristics/zooming/ stabilizer
• Sound-settings for using the external (Sennheiser) microphone

Editing in the camera: We will perform two modes of in-camera editing by recording different types of shots for different kinds of sequences:

1. Editing within the shot by choosing and changing frames and camera-positions
2. Continuity-editing and Non-Continuity Editing and its implicit messages

Each exercise should not exceed the length of 3 min.