Narrative & Motion Graphics

Exposure and its correlating settings can be very intimidating to beginner photographers who are learning how to operate their cameras. Breaking the larger concept down into analogies helps learners relate those functions to concepts they already understand. This makes learning this essential skill less intimidating and more practical to engage with.

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This explainer motion graphic simplifies shutter speed, one third of the exposure triangle, by comparing it to blinking. To help learners build a mental model surrounding this function's control over motion blur, this motion graphic serves as a graphic organizer, showing the evolution of the shutter from an eye to its original state inside of the lens of a camera. 

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The target audience for this learning design is comprised of beginner photographers of all ages who speak english and are both sight and hearing abled.​

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Learning Objectives

• Students will compare shutter speed to blinking in order to understand the function’s effects on motion blur.

• Students will test this analogy by blinking themselves, practicing fast and slow blinks to see the effects of changing shutter speeds.

• Students will be able to identify a fast shutter speed as a setting that produces a frozen image and a slow shutter speed as one that produces a blurred image.

• Students will begin to analyze the spectrum of shutter speeds as fractions of a second that are larger for slower speeds and smaller for faster speeds.