OK now we're in a different kind of landscape
we're on the beach, and we have a swing,
and we have our actress Tasha who will be in our video.
So I'm going to try a different kind of landscape shot here,
one incorporating the motion of an actress.
Adding a human subject is another great way
to create motion in your landscape shots.
And just like in a landscape photo, the presence of a person
gives a sense of scale and helps the audience imagine themselves
in the landscape.
So I want to film her swinging in slow motion,
because I think that's going to look really cool.
So I'm setting my camera to shoot at 120 frames per second,
that's 120 frames every second really fast which then gets
stretched out and slow down to 24 frames per second
in the final video.
That means that all these frames that were recorded really fast
get played out over a much longer period of time.
So that lets me stretch out every little moment
of her swinging, onto a much longer timeline
makes it more dramatic and makes it feel more dreamy less real.
So it's sort of like slowing it down to a photograph,
because if you can compose a perfectly framed slow motion
shot and slow down the motion enough it almost kind of
stops time.
So let's play around and try to get a cool shot of her
on swing.
So my strategy here is to get two shots, one wide shot, where
she's a silhouette swinging against the backdrop
of the sun and the sea.
I'm aiming to position the camera so that when she reaches
the peak of her swing she's perfectly
framed against the water, so you can easily
see the silhouette because of the contrast.
This is probably a familiar concept
if you've ever shot black and white photography where
you can only use contrast to differentiate
between your subject and the background,
you can't rely on hue.
That's sort of what I'm doing here
with her body against the backdrop.
Swing higher, as high as you can.
I'm timing my swing with the camera
so that she reaches the peak of her swing at the same time.
The second shot I'm getting is a slow motion shot
where she swings into a close up,
so we see her face very clearly and we see the emotion
on her face as she looks out at the sunset.
So we want to get us an audience that she's
enjoying the sunset, and the best way
to do that is to see her face clearly in the shot.
Stand up again?
Just look at me first of all.
OK that's good stand up.
So I'm setting my focus now to a certain spot,
and I'm just going to let her swing into focus.
Every time you get a new shot you
want to move the camera by at least 30 degrees preferably
more, this is called the 30 degree rule,
ideally you'd also want to change focal lengths
a bit so that the camera's axis changes
and the camera's distance from the subject changes.
And it makes it much easier to cut those shots together
and post, they don't appear to clash.
If I didn't move the camera enough,
if I moved it only say 15 degrees off axis
from the first shot to the second,
then those two shots would not cut together very well
or they would be too similar.
So in this shoot I'm actually moving the camera
90 degrees between shots, so if you were above me looking down
and you saw me filming shot and shot B,
then shot A would be at let's say 12 o'clock
and shot B would be at 9 o'clock.
That creates a nice sense of change
of perspective for the audience between the two shots.
OK hope you've enjoyed this lesson,
I will see you in the next one.