Video 1A
Emotions - Built-in
Camera Acting Exercise
30 Points possible
Objective:
To create a sixty second video using the iMac’s built in camera.
Carroll Izard is a psychologist who identified ten basic human emotions: Anger, contempt, disgust, distress, fear, guilt, interest, joy, shame, and surprise. You will use the iMac’s built-in video camera to portray these in a short acting performance. These performances have not dialog and you will remove the ambient sound during editing.
Directions:
Launch iMovie and use the built-in iSight camera (command i). Set the capture size to 640x480. Capture the ten segments individually, one-at-a-time.
Do not look into the camera. Also do not look at the video of yourself while it is recording. Instead, look a bit off to the side. Make sure you place yourself in the frame following the rule of thirds. Make sure you do not have too much head room.
Record a performance that is about five second long for each emotion. Remember to let your camera runs a few seconds before you start and after you end.
You should respond (without talking) to each scenario. Mentally prepare yourself for each scene by imagining that the incident is real. Do not over-act (and don’t act silly). If you don’t like your performance, do a second take. Edit each segment down to about five or six seconds.
Place the title over each performance listing the emotion portrayed. Arrange the order of the video in the order below. Add a different music or sound effect to each clip that strengthens your performance.
Create an opening title, with a background, that reads: Emotions. Create and end credit with your name at the end. Edit the entire video down to sixty seconds.
1. Anger
A person you dislike told you they didn’t
think you deserved a new car. Now you
discover someone has taken a key and scratched the side of it.
2. Contempt (lack of respect accompanied by a
feeling of intense dislike)
A co-worker who got a position that you wanted by backstabbing you has come to ask you for a favor. This person explains to you that they want you to do a task because they don’t know how.
3. Disgust
You open up a sandwich you just got and
discover small worms on the meat.
4. Distress
You have discovered your favorite pet was
just hit by a car. It looks like the
animal is still alive.
5. Fear
You hear somebody trying to open your bedroom window from the outside.
6. Guilt
Your teacher has just caught you cheating on an exam.
7. Interest
A person you are attracted to approaches you to chat about a movie they want to see when it comes out in a month.
8. Joy
You made the winning point for your team, leading them to the play-offs.
9. Shame
You have been caught shoplifting. The police call your parents to pick you
up. Your parents are very disappointed.
10. Surprise
You receive a letter informing you that a great-aunt that you never met has left you $5000.
GRADING
CRITERIA
1. Opens with title: Emotions.
2. Each emotion is portrayed effectively.
3. The image is properly composed using the rules of thirds.
4. The actor does not look into camera or at self on screen.
5. The background has little distracting from the performance.
6. Each emotion lasts five or six seconds.
7. Each emotion has a title. Make sure text is not over the middle of the face.
8. The Fade-to-Black transition is used between each emotion.
9. The ambient sound is removed from each clip
10. Each emotion contains a music or sound effect that strengthens the performance.
11. Credits at the end list your name and period.
12. The total length is 60 seconds.