Preliminary Exercise 6: Introduction to Camerawork Warm-Up

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Lately, I have been learning about camerawork in media studies. Camerawork is the way something is being filmed. This plays into the framing, angles, shots, movements, and composition. In class we were mainly focused on shot sizes and camera angles. Shot size is how much of the setting or subject is displayed within a frame of a shot. Camera angles marks a specific location at which the camera is placed to take the shot. Filmmakers uses this to emphasize specific emotions, ideas, and movement for each scene.

We went through the different types of shot sizes. Such as full shot, wide shot, master shot, establishing shot, medium shot, medium full shot, medium close up, close up, and extreme close up. We also learned about the different types of camera angles such as, high angles, low angles, eye level, Dutch, overhead, hip level, knee level, and ground level. We took notes on a video called “Ultimate Guide to Camera Shots: Every Shot Size Explained [The Shot List. Ep 1]” by Studio Binders. I am going to use these notes later on to create my movie shots.

So far, I am pretty excited to start working on my movie shots and angles. I have been looking forward to learning this concept because I feel like this is one of the most important concepts to know. Whenever I watch a movie with bad camera transitions, it is very distracting. I can’t get into the movie, which ruins the movie overall. This is why I feel like once I learn camerawork, I would be able to get a high grade on my movie.

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