camera movement - PowerPoint Presentation

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Tracks are laid on the set to permit a smooth movement of the camera, which can them follow a moving person or object.

dolly shot

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straight

or curvedSlide4

A shot taken from a moving vehicle , that follows a moving person, animal, vehicle or other object.

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racking

shotSlide5
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For closer work, there is hand-held – or more likely 'shoulder-held' – as in this photograph of filming in the London Underground.

Hand-held cameras ore often used to give a deliberately unsteady effect, to suggest authenticity as in a documentary.Slide7

Dollies are used less than they used to be since the invention of the

Steadicam

, which gives a smoother, less jerky result than a hand-held camera, but has a flexibility a stationery camera (or even one on tracks) can't have.Slide8

reverse tracking

tracking shots are usually made on a slight angle from the side of the subject; occasionally a

following shot

will be shot from behind.

following shots are not common because faces cannot be seen

reverse tracking is used when the director wants to focus on the face of the character being tracked, or wants the audience to share the character's experience

as in this very famous sequence of Cary Grant being chased by a crop-duster in Alfred Hitchcock's

North by Northwest

(1959)Slide9
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Film Techniques

part 3: pre- and post-productionSlide15

pre-productionSlide16

Shots are sometimes sketched in advance and in sequence, like a comic strip, thus allowing the filmmaker to outline the

mise en scène and construct the editing continuity before production begins.

Producers and studios

like directors who do this,

because production money isn't being wasted on 'dead time' on the set; crews don't have to sit idly while a director thinks about the next set-up.

Alfred Hitchcock said that he found this the most interesting part of making a film. Once he had planned every shot, the actual filming was just finishing the job.

Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Sam Mendes all regularly use storyboards.

storyboardingSlide17

They can be simple sketches, like these for

Mean Creek

(Jacob Aaron Estes) Slide18

An office scene in

American Beauty

(Sam Mendes) with the actual scene beside each storyboard sketchSlide19

Or more elaborate like this one for

The Fellowship of the Ring.

This exact view didn't make the final cut.Slide20

The Designer and/or Art Director are responsible for the look of a film.

Décor can be used to make a significant contribution to the ideas or mood of a film,

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the design and furnishing of the basic setting.Slide21

as these sets from Stanley Kubrick's

2001: A Space Odyssey

(1969) demonstrate:Slide22

the futuristic furniture and reduced colour scheme stress the sterility and impersonality of the space station environment

which is emphasised by the deep focus Slide23

Décor can be an important aspect of

characterisation.

The stark bareness of his room hints at the psychological problems of Lars (Ryan Gosling) in

Lars and the Real Girl,Slide24

especially when contrasted with the warm, lived-in home of his brother and sister in law (

Emily Mortimer).Slide25
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Will (Hugh Grant) lives a life of pointless consumerism, as is indicated in the design and décor of his flat.

About a Boy

It looks very tasteful and colour co-ordinated but has no personality. He almost seems to get lost in it. His life is as grey as his flat.Slide27

He has all the up-to-date gadgets.Slide28

By contrast, Fiona and Marcus live in a house that looks much cheaper and less luxurious, but is a home – they have made their mark on it.