From the course: Creating Cinemagraphs and Plotagraphs

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Shooting demo, putting it all together

Shooting demo, putting it all together

From the course: Creating Cinemagraphs and Plotagraphs

Shooting demo, putting it all together

- We've talked a lot about technical options and rules of composition, but let's put all these things together. I'm going to walk you through a shooting scenario and show you these techniques in real time. So let's go ahead and switch over and start to capture some moving footage that we can use to create a cinemagraph or a photograph. Now that we understand some of the concepts of shooting let's do a quick demonstration to put all these things together. I've built a small environment here where we're going to be shooting of all things, a cupcake, but not a standard cupcake, a cupcake with candles lit on fire. This'll give us subtle motion. Alright let's take a look at the scene from right to left. We've lit the scene here. On this side I have used a low eco light. This is a very soft compact fluorescent light, got a nice broad soft surface here, and this is going to give me constant lighting for my subject. I'm also filling things in a little bit using this LED light here from…

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