Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Within the duration of todays lesson, we had our very first lesson on camera work. Through the process of this we looked at the diffent types of camera angles and shots, learned how to frame specific shots correctly and alter the cameras many functions, and also adjust the tripod in specific ways to get shots that we intended to accomplish eg; high shots, and low shots. Differentiating between some of the shots we worked on were as follows; Long shot, which allowed to see the environment behind an individual, these shots also help us to tell more about the person, where they are what they look like etc. Mid shot which allows us to focus more on the character, all the while not excluding the background, Close up shots, which allow us to mainly focus on the characters face, exceedingly benificial when wanting to show a characters emotion, extreme close up which allows us to focus mainly on a certain object or part of a person, this shot is exceptional when used with a blur effect, e.g; say if a character had a knife, you could extremely be close up to the knife and blur out the background to emphasise the knife's play in a film, giving the knife ''character''. Another shot we took was called well i cant actually remember the name, but i can describe it differently as a dutch tilt, this is where the camera is purposely tilted to one side so the horizon is on an angle. This creates an interesting and dramatic effect. examples of this shot can be seen in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and the Batman series. All of the camera shots mentioned above can be found in this video, created by myself, Georgia and Lindsey.

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