
Learning Outcomes & Objectives
- Competencies: Collaboration, organization, creativity, problem solving, results orientation, communication
- Assessment: All scenes successfully recorded within given time frame
Teacher’s Role
For shooting videos and capturing audio, teachers have to organize and plan what and how students are going to do this task. Some challenges include:
- students having proper equipment
- if sharing needs to occur, how to schedule groups
- timing for scene changes
- group scene exchanges
- create time before recording for students to observe the chosen area for scene options
- cafeteria, hallways, lobby, courtyards


Types of Shots
Although some Shots Types were previously mentioned in the Storyboarding & Scriptwriting page, this section focuses more on the most common Shot Types:
- Extreme Wide Shot (EWS)
- focuses more on the background, context, and all the actors in one scene.
- Wide Shot (WS)
- closer with less border to frame image.
- Medium Shot (MS)
- wide angle but actor is more centered, shot from hip with upper tilt.
- Close Up (CU)
- actor is main focus, portrait image, very little background
- Extreme Close Up (ECU)
- actor’s face may fill frame, no visible background
Shot Considerations
With the Rule of Thirds,
- The screen is into three sections (left, middle, right)
- The objective are the three methods of capturing the scene the correct way.
- Below is an example:


Managing a Rule of Thirds/Shot Types
Teachers will need to provide the following materials for students to understand implementing Rule of Thirds into Shot Types
- Video clips from TV shows, movies, and commercials that show different shot types
- At least one video from YouTube on the rule of thirds
- Transparency film copy paper
- Copy of the “Thirds Grid” image (available on our website)
- Camera with the “grid” turned on in the viewfinder
Additional Consideration
- Headroom
- positioning of the actors head on a screen
- Noseroom
- the space between the actors nose and the camera
Horizontal vs Vertical
- Pillarboxing
- portrait (horizontal) view, 16:9 standard video format for filming, black frame on left and right side.
- Letterboxing
- shooting in portrait view when video was formatted in landscape, black frame from on top and bottom.
- Windowboxing
- shooting with black border around entire screen frame
Audio Considerations
Microphone
- External microphones, connect with wire on person and bluetooth.
Distance
- Area between the actors mouth and the microphone
Background Noise
- Something as simple as the water fountain, vending machines, AC unit can effect background noise