1. Summarizing a story
http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/

2. What is a 20 shot story?
 The novel or story is condensed to exactly
20 shots
 Major characters, events and theme need
to be included
 An activity in summarizing and examining
the crucial details of the story

3. How to create a 20 shot story?
 Storyboard the text
 Shoot each shot, one at a time
 In camera-editing (set up first shot, hit
record, hit pause, then continue with
second shot, third shot, etc.)
 Must rehearse

4. Camera

6. Long shot
 Features a person
or people from head
to toe
 full body shot
 LS

7. Medium Shot
 Features the person from about the waist to
the head
 MS

8. Close-up
 Features a person’s head and shoulders
 We are close to the character
 Able to more clearly recognize facial expressions
 CU

9. Extreme Close-up
 Closest we can get to a person or object
 Eye, mouth, watch, doorknob, etc.
 ECU

10. Establishing Shot
 First shot of a scene
 Tells where the action will be taking place
 EST

11. EST
 Can be a building
 A sign
 Or a title
Principal’s
Office

12. Over the shoulder shot
 Back of person’s
head=foreground
 Main character’s
head=background,
but it is in focus
 We know the
character is talking to
someone
 OS

13. 2 shot
 A shot with 2 people in it

15. normal
 Shot is taken at a normal, everyday angle
 Eye-level

16. Low angle
 Camera is on ground or low…and looking
up
 Subject on the screen is powerful or
superior

17. High angle
 Camera looks down on the subject
 Subject on the screen is weak or inferior

18. dutch
 Angle is diagonal,
crooked
 Suggests action or
excitement
 Something abnormal
is going on

19. Point of view
 Camera becomes the eye of the subject
 POV

20. As a class, let’s storyboard…
The Three Little Pigs

21. Cell Phones
 An alternate way to record interviews
 A way to capture video and audio without
having to purchase video cameras
 Limitations
 lack of camera angles
 school district policy on cell
phone use in school