Storyboard

Camera Shots

Reel, Unreel.

Aly's Reel/Unreel was a very believable continuity edit. He made us believe that these kids really did run around their entire town with the ease that the camera followed them. The different camera angle techniques helped us believe it was non-stop.
The subtext could be seen as the real representing life as a series of events and the film representing the memories that peoples have of those events. Having one boy unreeling them and the other reeling the same events back up could mean that as much as we try to keep historical events in place and honest, they can become misconstrued(the film being dragged through the fire and broken).
Ive seen this mini film before so the second time seeing it I did catch different things, but at times it still lost my attention. I think it is well thought out and the camera angles were believable.

Light Meter

  Light Meter 
A light meter is used to measure the intensity of the light entering the camera and is used to help the photographer expose a "correct" exposure. I put quotes around "correct" because the photographer can choose to ignore the light meter to make an exposure that they want. if they want a darker image, they will increase the shutter speed even if the camera is telling them to decrease it. With this exercise, by pointing the camera at different objects in the scene and taking the "correct" light meter reading, and applying it to the entire image, should result in the original object being a middle grey.

Aperture & Shutterspeed

Aperture:

 Aperture is a hole within a lens, that light uses to enter the camera body.  If you were to reduce the aperture, say to F2, making the hole bigger and a shallower depth of field the shutter speed has to decrease to keep the exposure the same.When the shutter speed decreases, the chance of subject blur increases.

Faster shutter speed, lower aperture, larger opening, shallow DOFSlower shutter speed, higher # aperture, smaller opening, larger DOF

 

larger opening, faster shutter speed   >   >    >   >   >    >  smaller opening, slower shutter speed

So these three photos demonstrate the process of depth of field increasing and the relationship between aperture and shutter speed. The amount of light you let in directly correlates to the amount of time you have to set the exposure at. If you want a larger depth of field, your aperture has  to be higher, and the result of that, for a decent exposure for this picture, the shutter speed had to be slower to let in light for a longer amount of time due to the smaller opening.
Shutter Speed:
Slower shutter speeds allow more light to be let into the camera and is used for low-light photography, while fast shutter speeds help to freeze motion. Shutter speed is easier to understand conceptually, but it still corresponds with aperture, so for a correct exposure, the two need to work together. 

In closing

My final project reflects my intentions and portrays how dyslexia is different for everyone. I am left feeling slightly unfulfilled because it feels like I didn't do enough. I am proud of the video because it finally shows everyone a realistic example of what reading is like for me so I don' have to explain it anymore.
If I could go back and change something I would probably try harder to create a way that helped the viewer follow along with the reading such as a moving line or highlight.
I think the most challenging part of the assignment was letting down my guard and showing people an unfiltered recording of me reading. I've worked hard to sound fluent when reading in front of audiences and hearing my unfiltered process continues to sound dumb to me and produces anxiety when I think about people hearing what really happen a in my head.
But I guess that's what art is about: creating a physical representation of what's in our head so hopefully others can relate.

Final Project Idea

Automatically when I think of transformation I think of a caterpillar turning into a butterfly or flowers blossoming. But what if a transformation took place that turned an object into something completely different? What if a human transformed into a butterfly or vice versa. Knowing I don't exactly have the best technological skills, I don't think I could make a smooth transitional piece like how I'm envisioning right now, but for the final project I want to confuse my viewer by transforming something into it's opposite or something else unexpected.