Saturday, November 21, 2009

Revised Midterm Grades

Students,
Due to an ambiguously worded question (#2) I have revised the midterm grades for students who answered either "zoom" or "dolly" instead of POV for Question #2. Although I was referring to the opening shot, NOT the credit sequence, still the question was sufficiently ambiguous to be understandably misunderstood by some students.
    I should also point out that technically the shot was a dolly-in, not a zoom shot; the difference being that a dolly shot gets closer (or farther) from its subject by mechanically moving the camera, whereas a zoom does so by continuously changing the focal length of the lens and flattening space instead of actually crossing space. Still the terms are sometimes used interchangeably unless the nature of the image is at issue (flattening of planes, etc.).

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