You don't know the average plan which, as Théophile - Customer Success Manager at EasyMovie - would say, is nevertheless great? Fortunately, our first article of this week is dedicated to it!
As stated in the previous article on the overall plan, we are done with plans that show both the place and the action to give your stakeholder the upper hand. The average plan is the most basic and practical plan. Why? Exactly we are going to explain it to you.
What is it for?
Also called foot plan, this plan is useful when you want Put your speaker first of your action. It allows you to focus on this action therefore, and the body of your speaker in more detail than the plans already mentioned. Indeed, this is the broadest plan you can have of your worker where it is possible to focus on him more than the environment that surrounds him. If the place is still present, it is no longer dominant and therefore less explanatory as to the story. We leave the setting in the background in order to put the action and its characters in the foreground..
In Hollywood movies, this plan is regularly used for fight scenes, for example. If you are unlikely to have to film such cases, this shot value can be useful. when you want to introduce your speakers in your video, good for filming a trip, or even showing a global and distinct action such as a discussion with several people around an office.
How do you go about it?
To frame this plan, nothing could be simpler, all you need to do is film the speaker from head to toe. You can leave a little space above and below your speaker, as long as it is possible to discern his actions and the location does not take over. If this is the case, you are using an overall plan and not an average plan. This shot is most of the time framed at eye level because it is the angle of view that most highlights your speaker.
When filming in an open space, it is not mandatory for a speaker to be standing from head to toe to consider this plan as an average plan: your speaker can be sitting at his desk or like Théophile on his chair, as long as his actions are discernible it is an average plan.
Last but not least negligible detail, if you get your speaker talking, Pay attention to cable size in advance of your microphone. At EasyMovie, we don't underestimate sound for aesthetics and we therefore have an extension cord to allow us to hear our speakers even if they are a bit far away. If you are as fussy about this video as we are, you can try to hide the microphone by sliding it behind your speaker's leg.
So you are now ready to carry out this plan independently, only to create your video entirely, you will need values other than the overall, general and average plans. And to learn a new one, we'll see you in two weeks!
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