Camera & Composition I
Framing, rule of thirds, movement, shot types. Shooting well with whatever you own, phone included.
- Lectures
- 8
- Total runtime
- 3h 14m
- Attendance minimum
- 1h 37m
- Prerequisites
- None
Lecture Playlist
Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.
- 1. Introduction to MIT 21L.011 The Film Experience (2007) Where the visual language came from: a camera is not yet a film, and conventions had to be invented 51 min Attended
- Ultimate Guide to Camera Shots: Every Shot Size Explained [The Shot List, Ep 1] The core vocabulary: shot sizes and what each distance does to the viewer 13 min Attended
- Ultimate Guide to Camera Angles: Every Camera Shot Explained [Shot List, Ep. 3] Where you put the camera: angles and the power relationship they create 14 min Attended
- Camera Framing: Shot Composition & Cinematography Techniques Explained [The Shot List, Ep 2] Who is in the frame and from whose position: singles, two-shots, OTS, POV 9 min Attended
- Ultimate Guide to Film Composition & Framing — Key Elements Explained [Shot List Ep. 11] Arranging the frame: thirds, leading lines, balance, depth, negative space 18 min Attended
- Ultimate Guide to Camera Movement — Every Camera Movement Technique Explained [The Shot List Ep6] Moving the camera on purpose: every movement, what it costs, and what motivates it 29 min Attended
- 17. Jean Renoir and Poetic Realism (21L.011 The Film Experience) Composition as meaning: staging in depth, the held shot, and what a frame says that a cut cannot 47 min Attended
- Practicum · working creator The ONLY 9 Shots You Need To Tell Any Story The shot list a working director actually shoots: the shot-size and angle vocabulary of Lectures 2–4 reduced to the nine choices that recur on every job, and the motivated-movement discipline of Lecture 6 applied solo, with no crew and no special gear 13 min Attended
Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Tim Runia — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.