Thursday, 5 November 2009

Camera Angles

As practice for our video, we experimented with different camera angles to see which looked effective. Here are stills of the different angles and our opinions of them.

1. Long shot - I like this camera angle as you see the artist in full as well as some of the location and mise-en-scene. However, this type of shot it often used to set the scene so may not need to be used very often.

2. Mid shot - This shot is effective as the artist fills most of the shot, drawing the attention to her. Also, as she is playing an instrument, as well as seeing her face, we see her playing. This is probably the shot we will use most often.


3. Close up - I like this shot as you can see the emotion of the performer which signifys both the narrative and mood of the video. I think this shot would be most effective if used fairly frequently but not as often as a mid-shot.

4. Extreme close-up - This shot clearly shows emotion of the face. But will also be good to show the playing of instruments.

5. High canted angle - This shot would be effective if trying to make the person look small and iferior, however this is not what we want to do and it does not create the desired effect, therefore we shall not include this type of shot.

6.Low canted angle - This shot would have the oppisite effect, to make a person look bigger. However once again, we are not looking to create this effect and also you cannot see the performers face very well so once again, we shall not be using this shot.

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