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Exploring composition

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(light upbeat music) - Now that you learn something about lighting, let's talk about composition. What is composition? Well, simply put, composition is the art of arranging objects in the frame, and it relates not only to video, but also to visual art and architecture. Unfortunately, composition is such an enormous thing to teach that we'll hardly be able to cover a little part of it in this class. However, as in any form of art, there's always craft, and in craft, there are always tools and tricks and little tips and rules that we can teach you. It turns out that photography and cinematography borrow the most appealing types of composition from architecture and visual arts. It makes finding a beautiful composition a little bit easier for us. We can just borrow it from the masterpiece of visual arts. Composition and cinematography and videography starts with types of shots. The first one is wide shot. The wide shot is used to show your audience a main scene where the event is…

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