Camera Angles

Jaws Shot By Shot - Part 1

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Camera Shots, Angles & Movements

This video was created to help people understand each different Techniques. The techniques shown, may be the ones that I decide to use later on during our final video.

My Sisters Keeper

This is the opening scene to "My Sisters Keeper" (0:21 - 2:39)
I picked to anaylise this scene as I adore how the scene is so delicate and simply shown. I think that as it is such a gentle scene, Its more powerful in touching the audiences emotions.

Its start off with a quite a fuzzy recording of what then leads to the sky. The fuzzy recording hazes through a selection of rich blues and lightly faded colour blues. Already a relaxed tone is being portrayed through the idea of colour imagary. Carrying on the idea of relaxed and mellow, Its followed by a Kite flying in the sky, with occasional reflections of the sun. The simple looking scenery appears quite heavenly, which helps the Audience relate back to 'heaven and peace'. I think that, they tried to relate to a peaceful place at the start of the film, so that they could foreshadow a subtle idea of what may happen.

A character starts speaking over the recording, in a exceedingly gentle voice. The voice remains quite clear, However without whispering creates a sense of innocence. Eventhough, the audience understand the importance to listen, They never meet the character speaking until later on.

Still remainly gentle and delicately, The clip of the sky dissapears and changes into a selection of Human Body Cells. Eventhough, the images appearance doesnt seem peaceful, The melody in the background helps remain the viewers of the tranquility being set. The music repeats playing, underneath the characters voice at a much quietier level. I think that the music helps makes the scene melt together and flow smoothly, which i beleive is vital whilst emphasizing the idea of peace.

Slowly, Dated recordings are being shown to the audience, Of a young family. As the scene progresses, The family gets older. It appears to look like memories, and eventually they are getting more recent. Showing an idea of looking into the past, also reinforces the idea of peace moreso.

The font used for the credits is in a delicate font style and remains still. It's a white colour, which can represent the idea of peace. The font fades in and fades out which makes it appear very delicate and dainty to the viewers watching.

Se7en

This is the opening to the film Se7en, Which is known to starr Actors such as, Brad Pitt & Morgan Freeman.
The track playing in the background remains quiet and slow, giving off a unhurried and creeping atmosphere. Making sure that the soundtrack doesnt overpower the scene, by becoming too powerful, helps create an eerie sense to the scene. Falsing this idea of a eerie setting apon the audience helps build up the tension. Can then lead to the Audience, gaining a strong focus within the first few minutes of the film.

Having very slow and gradual moving clips, for exmaple the pages turning of the book, can also help emphasize a certain sense of tension. With very little quick and brisk moving clips, allows the atmosphere to remain highly chilling to the audience. Which then added together can gradually build up the anxiety, which is hoped to shown.

The blurred font, Which creates the credits, follows the same style throughout. The white colour agaisnt the dark background helps states itself, more clearly. This then helps it stand out and be obvious to the audience. The font also helps breaks up each clip. Breaking the clips up, and creating gaps can show an idea of uncomfortable and awkwardness. This is good as it can help to build the tension furthmore, by making the audience recognise that its not 'running smoothly'. The sharp movements of the lettering also bring a frighting idea to the film, as they appear to be very unsettling.

During the whole of the scene, The audience do not meet any of the characters faces. Keeping the audience 'in the dark' helps create a idea of mystery, which leads to bring curiousity to the viewers. Making sure that the audience are curious allows them to want to know more; which pushes them to carry on watching the film.

Eventually, As the scene comes to a close, The music and the clips begin to speed up. Doing so helps, highten the tension, and implies the idea of the scene reaching its climax. Its from there, where the film can suddendly drop the climax, creating a 'cliff hanger', or allows a certain event which may start the film off...