Use of Camera Movements

The video is teaching about how different camera movements in film create and emphasize different feelings and emotions. The crane shot is the first shot the video focuses on. The crane down makes the audience feel as if they're falling into the scene or the life of the character. A crane shot moving up gives a sense of how small the character in the shot is or how large the obstacle they have to overcome is. A crane shot from a very high angle to a very low angle on a character gives a sense of authority in that character, and makes the audience feel like the character is strong and opposing. The video touches on the shaky, edginess of using a handheld camera that gives a stressful, dangerous film to the shot, as well as the glidecam technique, which is opposingly creates a dreamlike feel to the shot. Glidecam helps it feel more epic and fluid, and can convey the calm before the storm aspect of a scene. Next it talks about panning, which refers to the rotation in a horizontal plane of the camera. The quick pan changes the emotional direction of the film instantly, showing a whole new perspective of something the character is going to overcome, which can take the shot from calm to dangerous in a split second. It lightly touches on the quick push in, which creates an element of surprise or shock, then goes right into the dolly. The dolly is a smoothly gliding camera technique that creates drama in a scene .The slow dolly in, which creates tension and helps the audience become more intimate with the character in the shot. It could make us feel uncomfortable for them, or make us feel their emotion. The slow dolly out leaves the character looking emotionally lost, and gives a sense of abandonment that makes the audience feel lost with them and feel for them in that way. like panning, a dolly across changes the scene quickly, which often changes the emotional direction by showing something totally new. Also, the zolly, which is zoom and dolly, creates something that seems like an out of body experience for the character, and can give a new feeling to the scene.

Some camera movements that the video doesn't touch on, but that are still important are zooming, the tilt, and tracking. Zooming basically is when the camera zooms in onto the subject, and is a lot like the quick push in seen in the video, in that is shows us the emotions of the subject much better, and can add an element of surprise. The tilt is a shot taken by angling a stationary camera up (tilt-up) or down (tilt-down), and it can create a kind of confusion and drama in the shot, as well as change emotion by showing unseen things in the frame. A tracking shot basically tracks the subject of the scene. Any shot using a mobile camera that follows (or moves toward or away from) the subject by moving on tracks or by being mounted on a vehicle is considered a tracking shot. This can create a stressful mood like in a chase seen, and add tension.