Camera Shots

In the article I read, I read about the types of shots that make viewers very interested in the movie, or show.  There are many different types of shots that you can make with a camera. High, low, medium shots, close-ups, and many others. Very interesting shots to me were the high angle shots. Even though high angle shots may be hard to accomplish, it looks great in a movie and shows a different perspective on things. This is because we are so used to seeing the world from 5-6 feet off the ground. Around eye-level. But with shooting high shots or low shots this makes things look interesting and tells a better story. To achieve this people may use ladders, trees, and cranes or booms. The best way to achieve this great shot is through using a crane or boom. Booms allow you to move the camera from high elevations to low elevations to get a great establishing shot or in other cases follow a car from a high elevation and by the time the car stops the camera would be at the same height as the car.

Low shots were quite common a long time ago but were hard to achieve. No a days there are special cameras to get those great low shots that you have always been wanting to get.  Low shots while moving may be hard to get. So that is why cameraman come up with great ideas on how to move the camera while shooting videos. For example, in the musical Royal Wedding, They mount a camera to the floor of a rotating set so that it made it seem like the actor was running up and down walls.

To get sideways shots you can put your camera on a dolly then set it on something just like train tracks and it follows it in a very calm, fluent motion without rattling.

Camera angles determine the movie and the mood of the movie. Movies are made up of many camera angles. When you put all these shots together you make a movie. All these shots make a movie great. The high and low shots usually are used as an entrance or ending but can be used at anytime. These shots give a great perspective on what is going on at the time and establishes the movie. This article was a great help in explaining the use of dolly’s, and cranes. Also gives me a new perspective on what the different heights of shots have on the product and the establishing of a movie.

 

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