Wide Shot - Body Language
Medium Shot - interview, news reading
Close up - to show their emotions, focus on the character
Extreme close up - Often used in genres like horror movies, distort the charactersubject
Low angle - to create control or power
High angle - looking up at the character makes the other character powerful
The space around the subject creates a different meaning
Too Much Headroom - Sad - side profile, alienation
Too Little Headroom - Body movement, Mostly seen in rap music videos
LOW ANGLE SHOT
Over her shoulder, its really dark and the lighting on the frog potrays (Good vs Evil) in both characters
LOW ANGLE & WIDE SHOT
To give some other perspective, its a short, long and wide, shows the setting and how short the man is.
Visual Clues: to create the sense of the height, is based in a office, the man is trying to open up the carbinet.
"Loose talk is Noose talk" - Trying to escape from a mental institution, he's dressed in a while lab coat
MAD HATTER
MEDIUM, CLOSE SHOT
Focusing on the mad hatter's head, the close shot introduces the character and sets the shot
Props/costumes and makeup
Gloomy background
LOW ANGLE & MEDIUM SHOT
Visual Clues : War background, boss of the office, dressed in the old fashioned years
Overall meaning: He seems like he's thinking about the object he's holding
Emotions: Thinking, up to something
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
TERMINOLOGY
SHOT
A shot ia a continuous piece of filming without interruption from the time the camera is turned on and starts filming until is turned off.
An edit is a break in the film where one shot ends and the next shot begins
The four common types of edit are:
A SCENE
A scene is a collection of shots with a range of cuts .
A shot ia a continuous piece of filming without interruption from the time the camera is turned on and starts filming until is turned off.
- In general most shots last for no more than about 10 seconds
- The camera or subjects may move during a shot
An edit is a break in the film where one shot ends and the next shot begins
The four common types of edit are:
- Cuts
- Dissolves
- Fades
- Wipes (Occasionally)
A SCENE
A scene is a collection of shots with a range of cuts .
FILM-NOLOGY & ELEMENTS
ELEMENTS OF CINEMA
Cinema is a visual art form. Cinema is not literature. A film is not a novel.
- Emotional experience
- Entertainment
- Learn : Historic Events
- Story
- Perspective human condition, relation to characters
- Visually connect with characters
- Storyline
- Setting
- Characters
- Sound
- Images
- Lighting
- Shot type
- Props: colour scheme & Objects
Cinema is a visual art form. Cinema is not literature. A film is not a novel.
- However, a film is a text, ust as a play poem or novel is a text.
- Although the storyline is essential, when reading a film you must be able to examine, interpret and analyze the visual elements and style.
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