Video 4 - Framing
I finally got around to putting together this video. I really wanted to channel my inner grandparent (and I'm bummed I'm so late with this one!) and take a video of my bulbs that were blooming a few weeks ago right after a rainstorm. So I took some cheesy music and tried to give everyone a bit of zen in my garden.
I purposely used shots that moved up the daffodils that were getting ready to bloom to give them some movement and give the illusion that they were reaching for the sky (and the shot was a perfect end to the video). I provided a contrasting shot with the tulips that I think were muffled in effect because of the way I shot (top-down). I took a low and wide angle of the pond as that 1. Limited the reflection on the pond so you could see some of the fish and 2. to give the illusion of it being bigger than it is (it's only about 5 ft x 5 ft wide. I framed the flower from the plum in my pond in the bottom right to give it a sense of serenity there.
I know there were no people in my shots, but it made it great!
It's definitely intentional that they all sit on the right side of the shot and further over-and that their desks are all giant. Interestingly enough, if you look at the way Oprah or other female-identifying hosts frame themselves, it's rarely in the way that the typically male late-night hosts do. And when their conversations are deep, hosts tend to join their interviewees on the couch or even switch spots. Framing controls what we think in video and photography, whether we know it or not.
I purposely used shots that moved up the daffodils that were getting ready to bloom to give them some movement and give the illusion that they were reaching for the sky (and the shot was a perfect end to the video). I provided a contrasting shot with the tulips that I think were muffled in effect because of the way I shot (top-down). I took a low and wide angle of the pond as that 1. Limited the reflection on the pond so you could see some of the fish and 2. to give the illusion of it being bigger than it is (it's only about 5 ft x 5 ft wide. I framed the flower from the plum in my pond in the bottom right to give it a sense of serenity there.
I know there were no people in my shots, but it made it great!
It's definitely intentional that they all sit on the right side of the shot and further over-and that their desks are all giant. Interestingly enough, if you look at the way Oprah or other female-identifying hosts frame themselves, it's rarely in the way that the typically male late-night hosts do. And when their conversations are deep, hosts tend to join their interviewees on the couch or even switch spots. Framing controls what we think in video and photography, whether we know it or not.
