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Analysing Film

Analysing Film. Aim: To identify the key terms. Aim higher: Apply new knowledge to analyse a film’s effectiveness. Starter: What kind of camera shot would you call this and what do you think might be its function ?. Close up - to show emotion / reaction. Camera shots.

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Analysing Film

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  1. Analysing Film Aim: To identify the key terms. Aim higher: Apply new knowledge to analyse a film’s effectiveness. Starter: What kind of camera shot would you call this and what do you think might be its function? Close up - to show emotion / reaction

  2. Camera shots • Just as in writing, film uses techniques to produce different responses in their audience. • Short sentences are used for impact in writing, but certain camera shots are chosen for exactly that effect as well. • Each camera shot is picked with the intention of delivering a very specific effect on the audience.

  3. Camera shots • There are 7 main camera shots which are each picked for a particular effect. • Point of view shot • High-angle shot • Over the shoulder shot • Close-up shot • Low angle shot • Medium Shot • Long shot These are occasionally played around with to make new versions, depending on what suits the director – for example, you could have a medium long shot, which would half the distance of a long shot, but still wouldn’t be a medium shot, etc.

  4. The Establishing or Long Shot

  5. The High Angle Shot

  6. The Low Angle Shot

  7. The Medium Shot

  8. The Close-Up Shot

  9. You are going to watch a short film which shows you examples of different camera shots / angles and movements using clips from the film ‘Se7en’. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KKXW3STiVM

  10. Match the camera angle to the shot Point of view shot High-angle shot Over the shoulder shot Close-up shot Low angle shot Extreme Close Up Medium Shot Long shot Medium Long Shot 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

  11. Match the camera angle to the shot High-angle shot Point of view shot 1 2 3 Medium Shot Close-up shot Long shot Point of view shot Over the shoulder shot 4 5 6 High-angle shot Medium long shot Low angle shot Extreme close up 7 8 9 10

  12. Camera shots • As we’ve discussed, each camera angle is picked specifically with an effect in mind. • Match up the camera shots you have learned with the correct explanations of their function(s). • Fill in your answers on the sheet in your booklet.

  13. Camera shots Choose from the following: Close-up shot Over the shoulder shot Low Angle shot Medium Long shot Medium Shot Point of view shot Extreme close-up shot High-angle shot Long Shot

  14. ________________ The audience sees the situation from the character’s position ________________ Suggests character’s smallness, weakness or isolation. The audience is in a powerful position. ________________ Focuses the audience’s attention on one character ________________ Concentrates attention. Shows character’s emotion Puts audience in a privileged position. _______________ Audience in intimate relationship. Shows a character’s intimate feelings. _________________ Suggests character’s bigness, strength or dominance. Audience in weak position. _______________ Situates character in immediate environment, yet still shows emotion. _______________ Shows the context of the shot. _______________ Important in action scenes, where emotion is still important. Camera shots and their functions

  15. Point of view shot The audience sees the situation from the character’s position High-angle shot Suggests character’s smallness, weakness or isolation. The audience is in a powerful position. Over the shoulder shot Focuses the audience’s attention on one character Close-up shot Concentrates attention. Shows character’s emotion Puts audience in a privileged position. Extreme close up shot Audience in intimate relationship. Shows a character’s intimate feelings. Low angle shot Suggests character’s bigness, strength or dominance. Audience in weak position. Medium Shot Situates character in immediate environment, yet still shows emotion. Long shot Shows the context of the shot. Medium long shot Important in action scenes, where emotion is still important. Camera shots and their functions

  16. Camera Movement • Not only is the shot an important tool in telling the film’s story, but the movement contributes a lot to our understanding too. Camera movement is used to: • Follow the action • Reveal information – moving plot forward • Change the emotional mood of the scene (e.g. making someone appear more or less powerful, frightened etc.)

  17. Camera Movement • There are several established camera movements the director uses for certain effects. • Panning • Tilting • Dollying in and out • Handheld • Tracking/crabbing alongside

  18. Aim: To understand how different camera movements can be used in different ways to achieve different effects.

  19. Travelling (hand held) Dollying in and out Dollying / Tracking Tilting Panning

  20. Now work in groups to complete the Camera Shots Quiz. Match each of the film language terms to the visual description on the sheet which best describes it. Write the answers on the sheet in your booklet.

  21. Camera Shots Quiz Answers

  22. Eye-level Shot Medium Shot Panning Dollying

  23. Tilting High Angle Shot Close-up Reverse Angle Shot

  24. Low Angle Shot Long Shot Tracking

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