This document provides tasks and projects for students to practice different filmmaking skills, including camera handling, collaboration, framing, editing, and stop motion animation. The camera handling assignments involve filming scenes of an earthquake, cliff climbing, and being at sea from a stationary tripod. Later assignments focus on collaborating as a film crew and framing conversational shots without moving the camera. Additional tasks include recreating a title sequence using slow motion, planning and filming a continuous 30-45 second shot, and creating a stop motion animation.

1. DIGITAL SKILLS
A collection of tasks for you to complete and post on
your blog!

2. Camera Handling 1: familiarize yourselves with
camera settings and a tripod
■ EARTHQUAKE
– Record a group of people who appear to be on land when the earth is moving.
– To create the effect the camera, on a tripod, has to be gently shaken or moved.The
actors begin by standing still and then try to adapt to the movement created by an
earthquake.
■ CLIFFHANGER
– The aim is to film someone who appears to be climbing up or hanging from a cliff.
Students have to secure the camera to a tripod and adjust the base so that the
action is recorded at a 90-degree angle
■ THE CRUEL SEA
– Record a group of people who appear to be on la ship at sea.The camera, on a
tripod, has to be moved from side to side.The movement is difficult to achieve as the
actors have to move in time with the camera. Easier without a tripod?

3. Video
■ Edit all Camera Handling together using titles to illustrate what’s going
on.
■ Blog Post: ‘Camera Handling’
– Introduce project – why is it important for you to practice Camera
Handling?
– EmbedVideo
– Reflection
■ What have you learned?
■ What must you check before filming?

4. Camera Handling 2: collaboration is key in a film
crew
■ THE DISAPPEARANCE
– Set up a wide shot/establishing shot of a group of people sitting on chairs or
standing together
– One person operates the camera while the other acts as director (the rest of you can
be in shot)
– Create a sequence where, one by one each student disappears
– DO NOT MOVETHETRIPOD OR CAMERA
– Record each shot for the same length of time (3-4 seconds)
– After each shot, pause the camera and move one person away
– Repeat until everyone has ”disappeared”

5. Camera Handling 3: framing is critical.
■ THE CLONE
– Set up a MLS for a conversational piece
– Working in pairs, one person operates the camera while the other acts as the subject
– Create a sequence where you are having a conversation with yourself
– DO NOT MOVETHETRIPOD OR CAMERA
– You #1: Interviewer = Enter on the right hand side of the frame
– You #2: Interviewee = Enter on the left hand side of the frame
– Upload your footage and layer the clips (Video A&B), cut either side
■ Reflection
– Is the time of day important when filming this sequence?What could happen to the
lighting?
– What would happen if you move the tripod?
– What would you do if you messed up your lines?

6. SLOW MOTION
■ The ‘Walking Scene” during the titles of Reservoir Dogs has been copied many times
over the years
– What is a parody?
■ WATCH the sequence and create a shot list using the template
■ PLAN your idea using a storyboard – follow the guidelines that you learned in Unit 4
■ SHOOT your footage.Take 3 takes of each shot! FRAME each shot carefully.
■ EDIT your footage adding titles and music
– Recreate the title sequence from Reservoir Dogs
– Download ‘LittleGreen Bag’The George Baker Selection

7. SINGLE SHOT: understand the importance of planning
in a continuous shot sequence
■ Plan and produce a continuous video sequence lasting 30-45 seconds
– At least 5 events must happen in your film
– Use a combination of tracking and panning
– Use the tripod as a counterweight to avoid jerkiness
– Inspiration:
■ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhZkdTgtjgk

8. HandwritingTool (AE)

9. Stop Motion Animation

10. Top 5 Film Making Skills
■ ORGANISATION
■ ABILITYTO MAKE QUICK DECISIONS
■ ABILITYTO BE A GOOD NEGOTIATOR
■ DIPLOMACY
■ ENERGY