Thursday, October 6, 2016

Using the Six Shot System

The six shot system include the main shots you should include when producing a video. The six shots are:
  • Rule of thirds- imagine a grid that looks like the one below over the video you are watching. While using the rule of thirds, you want to make sure that your film subject stays within the areas of the grid with dots on it for most of the video. This is to avoid staring into the center of a screen for long periods of time (which is very boring).


  • Closeup- Ex. if you are taking a shot of someone, to make it a closeup you would make the shot only of their face 
  • Extreme closeup- Ex. if you are taking a shot of someone's face, to make it an extreme closeup you would make the shot only of their eyes
  • Medium wide- when filming a medium wide shot, you should show from the waist up of your film subject
  • Extreme wide- when filming an extreme wide shot, you should show a full shot of a person or more
  • Over the shoulder- an over the shoulder shot is when the camera view is over the shoulder of your film subject
  • (180 Degree Rule)- this rule states that the camera must not pass over the invisible axis that is in place during all filming
Here is a link to my video:

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