In round 2 of the years, in Multimedia class, we were learning about digital storytelling. What is it then? It is a form of telling stories using media. We also learn about what makes a story. For me, to make a good story, you just have to think of interesting ideas and describe the scene in an interesting way, so that your story can attract people easily and don’t let the story die before you. Example, the world war 1 or 2. Everybody knows what it is, right? Those wars are history and it can also be called story. Lots of people in world war 1 and 2 are already dead by now, but their stories are still living in people heart. We even learn about story structure by following the Pixar story structure. This is how the Pixar story structure looks like.
- Once upon a time, there was ____
- Every day ____
- One day ____
- Because of that ____
- Because of that ____
- Until finally ____
After we look at a few examples, we practice it by trying to write our own stories. This is the story that I had written.
Once upon a time, there was a ghost who always make people run without turning back on the street. Every day, she always opened her mouth widely. Because of that, people run away and she thought she scared them. Because of that, She felt proud and continued to do that every day. Until finally, people came around to tell her to stop opening up her mouth because it is very smelly and they all handed her with a toothbrush and a toothpaste.
We also learn about photography. So, the amount of light that reaches your camera sensor is called Exposure. The three things that affect the exposure are Shutter Speed, Aperture and ISO. The higher the shutter speed is, the fastest you can capture photos. For Aperture, the lower you set it to be, the blurrier is the background of the photos. For ISO, the higher it is, the more sensitive the camera is to light, so the photo is brighter with high ISO. In photography, we also learn about the camera type shots. There are long shots, full shot, medium shot, close up, extreme close up, low angle, high angle and bird’s eyes view, eye level, dutch angle or tilt and over the shoulder.
- Long shot: You can see the full view of something and it is mostly used to capture landscape such as a mountain along with a forest.
- Full shot: A shot that shows subject fully from head to toe(case of a person).
- Medium shot: camera angle shot from a medium distance to show directly what is someone doing.
- Close up: a type of shot that tightly frames a person or object.
- Extreme close up: Shots that get right in and show extreme detail.
- Low angle: Photography that has taken from the lower area such as when you stand from the ground to take a picture of something above you.
- High angle: The meaning is opposite to low angle.
- Bird’s eye view: a general view from above.
- Eye level: shot with the level of the eyes looking straight ahead.
- Dutch angle or tilt: the picture that was shot in tilt angle.
- Over the shoulder: a shot of someone or something was taken from the perspective or camera angle from the shoulder of another person.
That’s it for this round. I hope you learn at least something today.