ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an exercise that can be a lot of fun but requires some careful frame-to-frame registration. A computer with a program like Dragonframe on it available to work through this exercise, and a digital video camera, are required. Shooting in the field has its challenges, and the first challenge the filmmakers will encounter will be their computer. The exercise will help demonstrate the contrast that is required in a pixilated film for it to be viewable and not overly active. The human subject will be the constant and the background will radically change throughout. The idea of this film is to focus frame by frame on the human subject in a head-and-shoulders composition with enough room in the frame around the subject to reveal the environment that the subject is in. Thinking about controlled animated movements that the human subject might display, like looking left and right frame to frame, smiling, maybe waving a hand, is essential.
