Unit(s): Mass Communication
Purpose:
The purpose of this activity is to familiarize students with the techniques and language of televison production.
Objective:
Students will be able to prepare a camera shot sheet for a television production of an animated nursery rhyme.
Materials:
- Handout "Camera Shot Sheet"
- Television
- Videotaped television commercial
Procedure:
- Define the following terms with students:
a. close-up - CU
b. tight close-up - TCU
c. extreme close-up - ECU
d. medium shot - MS
e. long shot - LS
f. extreme long shot - ELS
g. low angle
h. high angle
i. establishment shot - ES
j. point of view - POV
k. over-the-shoulder shot - OS
l. dolly
m. pan
n. tilt
o. zoom
p. cut
q. fade
r. dissolve - DISS
s. wipe
t. edit- Watch a television commercial or part of a program to identify various types of shots.
- Give the students the handout "Camera Shot sheet" to examine as a model.
- Ask them to prepare a shot sheet for a 30-second animated production of heir favorite nursery rhyme.
- Encourage student to select shots that best convey the particular idea or image, to include a variety of shots, to provide sufficient information about each shot, and to enter the shots in the proper sequential order.
- This is a good partner or group assignment.
Name: Karen Henderson
Production: "Mary Had a Little Lamb" animation
Date: 11/4/94
Page: 1 of 1
| Length of shot | Type of shot | Description
| Audio |
| -------------------------- | ------------------ | -------------------------------------------- | ------------------ |
| 2.5 sec | ES | Establish outside
of Mary's house in morning |
Music |
| 3 sec | LS | Zoom to long shot of
Mary and lamb leaving side by side | Mary had a little lamb, |
| 2 sec | ECU | Cut to shot of lamb's
face, showing white fleece and pink ribbons |
its fleece was white as snow, |
| 2 sec | MS | Pan Mary walking
down sidewalk, carrying books | and every- where that Mary went, |
| 1.5 sec | CU | Cut to lamb smiling
and winking at camera | the lamb was sure to go. |
| 1.5 sec | MS | Cut to Mary, smiling at
lamb, from lamb's POV | Music |
| 1.5 sec | LS | Cut to Mary and lamb
from behind, walking into horizon: fade to black | Music |