Thursday, 14 June 2012

Shot Sizes and Angles

A quick overview on the different shot sizes and angles for camera work. A useful video we used in Media Studies for people looking to make their own films:



This PowerPoint from SlideShare has some good explanations and also includes more definitions about movements:
Finally, this website has some excellent examples and good set of explanations. http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/

Camera Movements

Bit of revision on camera movements after the lesson today where we discussed these in relation to the exam paper from 2011. This first video is designed for people making films but has some very good explanations and excellent examples to reinforce the movements being shown. Please note: this video is American in origin and so may use slightly different terms (such as a trucking movement, which we would call a tracking movement).
 This second video is used for Media Studies and again designed for people who are looking to make films but has some very easy to understand explanations for camera movements:
 Finally, here are a couple of guides from SlideShare: