Camerawork
- How the camera is used in television and film to serve story, character and action
- The art of cinematography
- The primary grammar of visual story
Basic elements of camerawork
- The shot - affects our emotional and psychological relationship with characters and setting through composition and speed
- Movement -affects our emotional and psychological relationship with characters and setting through changes in visual movement
Why use shots?
- The basic building blocks of visual grammar
- the visual equivalent of sentence structure
- If shots are words, mise en scene is meaning ad editing is narrative
Basic shots
- Wide shot - establishes location, setting and context
- Medium shot - character(s) dominant in frame
- Close up - face or specific object dominates frame
- Extreme close up - selected part of character or object fills the frame. (Not often used in documentaries, but when it is, used to show emotion)
Angle and speed
- High angle shot - Diminishes character or subject in frame, emphasises isolation
- Low angle shot - emphasises character's dominance in frame
- Dutch/tilt shot - disorienting, creates psychological theme
Expressionism
- Angled shots are a common feature of expressionism, especially classic German Expression of 1920s-1930s
- Presents the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas
- Artists sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality
Slow/fast motion
- Allows audiences perceptual or emotional response to dramatic action
Motion and Emotion- Why move camera?
- To heighten action or emotion
- To convey objective or subjective viewpoints
- Refocus audiences attention within the scene
- Explore or change setting/ environment
Key camera movement technique
- Pan/tilt/zoom
- Dolly/crane
-Handheld/steadicam
'Halloween' scene camera movements (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLfxD5PzSuc)
- Heightens
- How the camera is used in television and film to serve story, character and action
- The art of cinematography
- The primary grammar of visual story
Basic elements of camerawork
- The shot - affects our emotional and psychological relationship with characters and setting through composition and speed
- Movement -affects our emotional and psychological relationship with characters and setting through changes in visual movement
Why use shots?
- The basic building blocks of visual grammar
- the visual equivalent of sentence structure
- If shots are words, mise en scene is meaning ad editing is narrative
Basic shots
- Wide shot - establishes location, setting and context
- Medium shot - character(s) dominant in frame
- Close up - face or specific object dominates frame
- Extreme close up - selected part of character or object fills the frame. (Not often used in documentaries, but when it is, used to show emotion)
Angle and speed
- High angle shot - Diminishes character or subject in frame, emphasises isolation
- Low angle shot - emphasises character's dominance in frame
- Dutch/tilt shot - disorienting, creates psychological theme
Expressionism
- Angled shots are a common feature of expressionism, especially classic German Expression of 1920s-1930s
- Presents the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas
- Artists sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality
Slow/fast motion
- Allows audiences perceptual or emotional response to dramatic action
Motion and Emotion- Why move camera?
- To heighten action or emotion
- To convey objective or subjective viewpoints
- Refocus audiences attention within the scene
- Explore or change setting/ environment
Key camera movement technique
- Pan/tilt/zoom
- Dolly/crane
-Handheld/steadicam
'Halloween' scene camera movements (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLfxD5PzSuc)
- Heightens
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