While I have had some rudimentary understanding of composition, this week has helped me to solidify my knowledge and give me greater confidence in teaching those elements to students. For example, I knew that such a thing as high angle and low angle shots existed and that they helped to portray the power relationship of the character, but I was not aware that there was such a thing as above or below eye-line. Also, the significance of the different framings. That wide shots help to emphasize the object's place in the environment or that close-up exclude the environment for intimacy, is new knowledge (though, honestly, it is intuitive if you just think about it.
Also invaluable was the instruction on the manual camera controls. I was aware of the different settings, but I was not familiar with what they did or how to manipulate them.
With this new and more specified knowledge I feel that I could design a unit more effectively on the use of composition elements.
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