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FILM

FILM. SHOT TYPES. Starter. What does this shot type show and what is the effect?. Camera shots and angles. In this course it is very important that you learn to analyse how shots have been composed in film or print media. Media Language: Camera Shots. Extreme Long Shot (ELS).

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FILM

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  1. FILM SHOT TYPES

  2. Starter • What does this shot type show and what is the effect?

  3. Camera shots and angles • In this course it is very important that you learn to analyse how shots have been composed in film or print media.

  4. Media Language: Camera Shots • Extreme Long Shot (ELS) • Scene setting, establishing location and scale • Establishing shot (ES)

  5. Media Language: Camera Shots Establish where a scene is happening or whole body actions • Long Shot (LS)

  6. Media Language: Camera Shots • Shows actions in a straight forward way Medium or Mid Shot (MS)

  7. Media Language: Camera Shots • Involves audience in emotion or detail Close-Up (CU)

  8. Media Language: Camera Shots • Shows high emotion or focus on detail Extreme Close-up (ECU)

  9. Media Language: Camera Shots • High angle • Can make people look less powerful

  10. Media Language: Camera Shots • Low angle • Can make people look more powerful

  11. Media Language: Camera Shots • Straight angle • Helps us identify with the character – neutral power

  12. Media Language: Camera Shots • Dutch angle/oblique angle • Makes us feel uneasy

  13. Media Language: Camera Shots • Point of view • Identifies us with the character/experience more intensely

  14. Media Language: Camera Shots • Over-the-shoulder shot

  15. Media Language: Camera Shots • Establishing shot • Tells us where we are

  16. 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. Media Language: Camera Shots • Zooming • Camera is stationary but zooms in • Draws us in, adds emphasis. Fairly cheesy if done badly.

  18. Media Language: Camera Shots • Panning • Camera is stationary. Follows the action, adds anticipation

  19. Media Language: Camera Shots • Tilting – moving dutch angle/obliqueMakes us feel uneasy

  20. Media Language: Camera Shots • Tracking – camera moves with subject, hand held • Builds anticipation, makes us feel like we are there.

  21. Media Language: Camera Shots • Dolly in/out - Camera moves along a track towards or away from the subject • Brings us closer to the action/emotion. Builds importance of subject or can pull back and reveal

  22. Media Language: Camera Shots • Dolly – tracking • Camera moves along a track alongside the subject. • We follow the action, anticipation building.

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