6 Shot System Tutorial

What Is This?

This is a tutorial over the 6 Shot System so that you can learn how to make your video the best it can be.

How Do I Do This?

Well first off, you have to pick a subject. Another person is probably the best option, and that was what I picked.

1. First shot is an extra wide shot, as shown below. This is taken with a lot of the setting space around your subject.

 

The purpose of this picture is the establish the setting in which your subject is present in.

2. The second shot is the wide shot. This is taken closer to your subject, with a little bit of setting still in there, from head to toe.

This shot is to capture more of the character of your subject in their setting.

3. The next shot is the medium shot. This is shot from the waist down and a lot closer to the subject.

The purpose of this shot is more of a focus on the subject, but it is a neutral shot.

4. The fourth shot is the over the shoulder shot. This is shot over the shoulder, so you can see what they are doing.

The purpose of this shot is to see things from your subject's point of view almost.

5. The next shot is a close up of the hands. This is shot where the hands take up most of the picture and are the main focus.

This shot's purpose is to show what your subject is doing.

6. The last and final shot is a close up of the face. This is taken where the face is the main focus.

 The purpose of this is to show emotion of the subject.

Now...

With these six shots, you will be able to make your video very organized and balanced. Make sure to follow the 180 degree rule when shooting these, so that your video flows evenly. Good luck!

- Olivia :-)

"They loved your GPA, then they saw your Tweets" by Natasha Singer

"Perhaps she hadn’t realized that colleges keep track of their social media mentions." - Natasha Singer 

In this article, Natasha Singer talks about the controversial issue of colleges, schools, and employment offices tracking applicants' social media accounts. 

The quote at the beginning was a comment Singer made about a high school senior who was rejected from a college because of the condescending comments she made over social media about her peers.

Kaplan Test Prep ran a questionnaire where 31 percent of admission officers had checked an applicant's FaceBook or other social media account, and 30 percent of the officers had found things that had negatively affected that applicant.

But there is a problem in admission officers believing what they read online, because someone can make fake accounts about people and post false information and they may never know that it is untrue.

Singer then emailed 20 colleges across the nations, who then replied that they barely ever do extra research because of the amount of applicants and that the information they find may led to unfair treatment. She also called 10 admissions officers, who agreed to interviews. They said they have occasionally rejected applications because of things they have read, because those were not the kind of people they wanted in their community.

High schools are now trying to help their students avoid "self sabotage", like deleting alcohol related pictures or changing their usernames that could be viewed as offensive. Now, teenagers are becoming more aware of this.

Singer closed out the article with a quote from a high school junior, “If you’ve got stuff online you don’t want colleges to see, deleting it is kind of like joining two more clubs senior year to list on your application to try to make you seem more like the person they want at their schools.”

I really took a lot away from this article and I hope all teenaggers and young adults are able to get this kind of real world information. I am glad I read this because now I will be very careful of what I post online.

If you would like to read the original article, here is the link - They loved your GPA, then they saw your Tweets