Cinematography and Camera exercise

Different camera shots and angles are used to concentrate the audiences focus on certain elements and to establish a setting, a variety of camera angles and shots are used to make the audience feel a certain emotion/empathy towards a character.
Their are a variety of shot types and camera movements used in the film and TV industry a few examples of these are below with a demonstration of the shot which I have produced.

Camera Shots

Long shots
allows you to get a distant few of the scene or object the directer wants to show you, often used to establish a setting, but not to be confused with a establishing shot.

Medium shots
Is a fairly close shot, on a person this shot will normally only have the person's face and lower torso showing, this shot is also used on large objects.

Close up
A camera shot with very little distance between the camera and object/person in the camera's sight for example on a person this will normally only be showing their face or on a object the shot would be used to concentrate on a certain detail or aspect of the object.

Camera Angles

High angle
Views the object/person from high up a sort of birds eye sky view, normally used to show the charcter is weak at this point, making you feel different emotions for the character.

Low angle
Camera is view the person from underneath, either a shot on the floor or underneath the charcter this ephsises the characters size and makes he/she appear more powerful, again used to make the audience feel a certain way towards the charcter.

Camera Movement

Pan
Viewing the object or charcter whilist moving across a fixed axis.

Tilt
The camera moves at a angle (tilts) to reveal a charcter/object or a scene.

Tracking shot  
The camera follows the charcter, the action , a example of this is in "The shining" which I have also blogged about, in "The shining" the camera follows the boy running away from his farther who had went insane this type of shot if also often used in football to follow the ball and players.

Camera Exercise task 

Here I have demonstrated most of the camera techniques I described earlier in my blog and showed I am competent with camera language, we created a school scenario incorporating different shot types through out.


Evaluation

Me and my group tried to show as many different camera shot types as we could, possibly if we created a different scenario we could have Incorporated more camera language.