Week Fifteen

Week fifteen's topic is another tricky one, this week we are introduced to Subjective and Objective point of views in film. When you think of point of view or POV for short you think of first person POV or seeing through another person's eyes. But that's not what I'm talking about now, Subjective POV basically means the camera is looking at the character's face whilst the Objective POV means the camera is watching the character doing something. This POV is from a storytelling POV, not a camera POV as normal! I know the naming of these camera techniques is contradictory to what you'd imagine they meant, so why do we have to make it hard for ourselves when naming these things?
Any ways I've had my rant and got it off my chest so I'll continue now.
We learnt about the 180 degree arc around the character and where the best places for the camera to be placed for Subjective and Objective shots sat in the arc and their ranges. Also learnt the rule that if there is no character in the shot, generally it is neutral and shot neither Subjective or Objective points of view.
Here is a great video explaining it really well, might get more of an idea after watching this (only 1 minute long).

Now we are thrown in the deep end as we are given our second assessment from Chris, which if you haven't guessed already is filming a page from a script demonstrating either Subjective or Objective POV's. Our choice which, but one or the other...we can't have both. This will be almost impossible in my opinion but I guess at this stage it's all trial and error, best way to learn I suppose.
So this should be interesting, here is an example on Subjective POV from some of last year's Diploma students, I hope I can at least match the quality.