Camera Movement: StoryBoard

The lesson we learned is Camera Movement. Camera Movement is a filmmaking technique that describes how a camera moves about to help enhance a story. There are 12 main Camera Movement techniques we learned in this assignment, Static, Pan, Whip Pan,  Pan, Tilt, Zoom In & Out, Dolly In, Dolly Out, Tracking, Trucking, Crash Shot. My 2 favorite techniques out of all 10 are the Dolly In shot, camera is riding into a subject, and the Pan shot, moving left and right on a horizontal axis. I like the Pan shot because it is very flexible and can do a lot of different things in film. I like the Dolly In shot because of the different types of scenarios it can create in films.  

The assignment of this lesson asked my teammates and I to create a Camera Movement Video Storyboard. The objective of this assignment is Discuss the key concepts of Media Studies. Apply the key concepts of camera movement, shot sizes, angles, framing, and elements of mise en scene in preparation for their Opening Film sequence. Practice their Media Studies technical skills. Collaborate during the pre-production/planning of their videos. Create a storyboard Having been asked to make a storyboard in the past, we put our previous knowledge into gear in order to get our new knowledge rolling.

Camera Movement

 What is Camera Movement?

Camera movement is a filmmaking technique that describes how a camera moves about to help enhance a story. Specific camera movements help change the audience's view without cutting; they can be a great way to make your video more immersive and engaging.

In this assignment, we learned 12 movements:

• Static 
• Pan 
• Tilt
• Zoom In 
• Zoom Out
• Dolly In
• Dolly Out
• Tracking 
• Trucking
• Random
• Crash Shot

The Director is the most important part of a movie set. I was tasked to answers 2 questions on 2 famous movie actors, Tell 3 famous movies they create, and find an example from the movies and link it with one key terms above. Here is who I chose:

The First Director I used is James Cameron. He is known to be one of the best director of today. He uses a lot of Zoom in shots and crash shots in some of his movies. 3 movies directed by him that I am using in this assignment is, "Avatar: The Way of Water", "Terminator 2: Judgement Day", and "Titanic".

1 Example from James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water, One of the fasting grossing movies in history. If you watched the movie, this an example of a dolly in/push in shot. This type of shot is used to show what happened on the battlefield. It is also used to show the fire and dead avatars.

The Second Very Famous Director I picked was Tyler Perry. The 3 Movies I selected from is videography is "A Madea Family Funeral", "Tyler Perry's: Meet the Browns", and "Tyler Perry's: BOO! A lot of his movie feature static shots and tracking shots. 

The Picture below is from, "A Madea Family Funeral". It was created in 2019 and is one of his highest grossing films. This Shot is an example of a Zoom Shot and a Close-Up Shot. This type of shot is used to show the pleasure Madea feels after creating a Funeral for of her dead family members.

4-Month Reflection

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Piper High

In the beginning of the year, I was placed in a class called "Aice Media Studies". This class has been nothing but a mere imagination. This class is intriguing, but challenging. The knowledge I will gain from this class will be something nobody else will know. We've been over a multitude of different concepts such as, Mise en Scene, Camera Framing, Camera Shots, Color in film, etc.. All of these will be beneficial to me when I have to complete my 3 components. This class is one of the harder classes but I will get through it.

Shot Sizes

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Piper High

From this assignment, I learned how to plan a storyboard frame, Understand ways in which media language incorporates viewpoints and ideologies, learn how audiences respond to and interpret media language  understand the impact of developing technologies on media language and grasp how combinations of media language generate meaning.

For this assignment I worked with 3 people. We created a physical shot sizes storyboard in class. Our storyboard consists of a couple who went ghost hunting in a spooky abandoned cemetery. They were both a little on edge about it, but the boiling point was when they heard footsteps, they did a little investigating, then the footsteps got closer. Then it stopped, they then heard hard breathing and panting, they turned around and BOOOMM, there was a creepy man covered in blood. The picture below is a photographic example of what we created:

Camera Angles

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Piper High

In this assignment I learned how to use camera angles to create a storyboard. The objective of this assignment is: 

• Understand ways in which media language incorporates viewpoints and ideologies. 
•  How audiences respond to and interpret media language.
•  The impact of developing technologies on media language
•   How combinations of media language generate meaning.

So what are camera angles? Camera angles are the perspectives a director chooses to capture with a video camera when filming a scene. In this assignment, we created a physical storyboard depicting the different types of camera angles.

The image below is a display of the physical copy:

I worked on this assignment with 3 other people.

Introduction to Camerawork Warm-Up Preliminary Exercise 6: Camera Angles

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Piper High

Camera angles are a key concept anyone in film should know. There are 8 different types of camera angles I had to take notes on in class:

Shot #1: Low Angle (LA):Below eye-line looking up. Used to Make character look powerful. E.G (Super Heroes ; Super Villains)

Shot #2: High Angle (HA): Used to diminish a character and also used to present cities or big landscapes.

Shot #3: Overhead Shot: Directly above a subject, shooting STRAIGHT down.

Shot #4: Dutch Angle: Shots are a Rotated. 

Shot #5: Eye Level (EL): Most commonly used. Does not impose judgement.

Shot #6: Hip Level Shot: It is also called the cowboy shot because in western movies, it is commonly used to show a gun or weapon on the holster of a cowboy.

Shot #7: Knee Level Shot: Shows character details.

Shot #8: Ground Level Shot: Finds camera place all the way down on the ground. Low Angle.

The image below represents photographical examples:

Introduction to Camerawork Warm-Up Preliminary Exercise 6: Shot Sizes

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Piper High

In film, The term shot sizes means how much of the scene is included in the picture, and whether it mainly shows the setting, people in the setting, or details of faces and things. There are 9 different types of camera shots we had to take notes on in class. 

Shot #1: Establishing Shot (ES): Wide enough to establish the geography, time of day and setting. Usually found in the beginning of a movie.

Shot #2: Master Shot (MS): Captures everything happening in the scene and confirms relationships with other characters in the movie.

Shot 3: Wide Shot (WS): Positions characters far from each other ; feeling of loneliness.

Shot #4: Full Shot (FS): When a subject or character’s shot is captured in he entire frame.

Shot #5: Medium Full Shot (MFS): Captures a character from the top of their head just below their waist.

Shot #6: Medium Shot (MS): Captures size in which we interact with each other.

Shot #7: Medium Close Up (MCU): It captures the viewer’s attention and reduces distraction. 

Shot #8: Close Up (CU): At eye level

Shot #9: Extreme Close Up (ECU): Highlight and isolate something crucial to the narrative.

The image below is an example of shot sizes I created.

In this assignment I learned what shot sizes are, and how that are used. Using the right Shot Sizes are crucial for filmmaking because you wouldn’t want to have an ECU shot for a WS shot.