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For our first quiz of the year, we were instructed to get into pairs and create a story using photos. We were to use the information we had learned the class before about camera shots and angles, and a maximum of two inanimate objects to produce a story in exactly 15 shots. We then had to identify what specific shot type we used for each photo and explain why we had chosen to use it.
My partner and I decided to use a pink highlighter and a black Expo marker to tell the story of a couple struggling to cook pasta together on a date night. For the background we drew a kitchen on a big piece of paper and for the "cooking supplies" we folded cut-out pieces of paper and made a table, bowls, tomatoes, and pieces of pasta. Overall, I think we did pretty good. We were able to get our story across while keeping it cute, creative, and entertaining. We did, however, misidentify a few camera shots and angles in our explanation, and half of our pictures had better lighting then the rest due to us realizing too late that the use of our phone flashlights would make our pictures look clearer and more detailed. The lighting in the photos could have been improved, more attention could have been paid to the definitions of every camera shot and angle, and we could have started to shoot earlier to have had more time to take the pictures, instead of hurrying to beat the dismissal bell. Still, the shots and angles we used created a nice balance between the small dramatized, instructional, and sweet romantic moments this couple experienced in a short amount of time.
