https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcimxIgR6Mg&t=99s
Scene 1: Close Up/Tracking
This shot introduces the time period as the shoes are clearly reminiscent of the Victorian Era. By letting the shoes walk off screen, the shot shows that the actress is walking past and has a specific place to be, but by tracking them for a time, the shot shows briskness and purpose. It also allows for the name of the actress to be revealed as the black text (matching the shoes and dress) is typed on the lighter pinkish background.
Scene 2: Medium Shot
This shot introduces more of the actress, showing the black clothing and black umbrella in the perfectly clear sky, indicating mourning and a period work. It also has symmetrical framing from the sides of the house and the bushes.
Scene 3: Establishing Shot
This establishes the setting of the piece. It was filmed outside Lexi Schwartzburg's house to show that the rest of the video takes place inside her house. I was acting in this shot and had Marley Ackerman film it, holding her hands as still as possible for lack of a gimbal/tripod. The framing shows the actress in the exact middle to highlight the house's symmetry.
Scene 4: Medium Close Up Shot
This shows the audience the newspaper from which the information is conveyed to both the audience and the other actress. This shot allows for the cut on action to transition to the next shot. It is also nicely framed by bushes, keeping with the symmetrical framing from the previous shot.
Scene 5: POV Shot
This allows the audience to see what the actress sees, roving over the newspaper smoothly as eyes might. By showing the article of the person's death before the other actress sees it, I create dramatic irony and show why the other actress gets upset in the next few shots without telling. I made the article and edited the photo of my boyfriend in photoshop and laid it over a newspaper I had. I also color corrected this scene to better match the separate paper to the newspaper.
Scene 6: Over the Shoulder Shot
This shot shows the audience what the actress is looking at. It also allows the audience not to see the first actress' face (showing that she is a minor and flat character) and will (in the later over the shoulder shot here) allow the audience to see the full face of the second actress, which is the major, round character in the piece. Since the sleeve of the dress is able to be seen, the audience is still reminded of the black color of mourning and the time period.
Scene 7: Wide Shot
This shot shows the audience the new location while also introduces the new character. It is close enough to show the actress and her hair/clothing (in keeping with the Victorian period aesthetic), but also far enough to show location. The same door is shown as in the other scene, showing this is the other side of the door.
This shot gives the audience a jarring, distorted effect, which represents the jolt that the actress feels when she sees the newspaper article. It allows both the inside and the outside of the house's doorway to be shown (half of the shot in each), linking the past shots with those that are coming after this one. This shot also allows for the newspaper to cover the camera in darkness, so as to both form a transition for the next shot and allow the audience to focus on the audio in the shot as that is all that is provided when there is only a black screen.
Scene 9: Arch Shot
This camera movement moves beyond the 180 degree rule, moving fully around the character, creating a parallax that focuses the audience's attention on the character and creates a blurred, fast-moving background, disorienting the audience as the character changes and thinks unnerving thoughts.
Scene 10: High Angle
This shot gives the audience more of a sense of the scene, showing the location from up high rather than just around eye level. This continues to remind the audience of the period of the piece.
(Content and quotes from research: https://prezi.com/o-u2nd7jr8o0/camera-shots-angles/)
Establishing Shot - the shot that sets the general location and mood of the movie.
Master Shot - a film recording of the entire dramatized scene, from start to finish, from an angle that keeps all the players in view.
Close up - tightly frames a person or object
Mid shot - shows some part of the subject in more detail, whist still showing enough for the audience to feel as if they were looking at the whole subject
Long shot (Wide shot or full shot) - typically shows the entire object or human figure, usually intended to place it within its surroundings.
Wide shot - The subject takes up the whole frame.
Two-shot - camera shot with two people in a single frame.
Aerial shot - shot from a longer distance above. (can be straight on, just is in the air)
Point-of-view shot - shows subject's perspective.
Over-the-shoulder shot - framed from behind a person who is looking at the subject. The person facing the subject should usually occupy one third of the screen.
Split Diopter shot - using a split diopter lens, the camera can be near-sighted in one half of the frame and far-sighted in the other. (This is a half lens, so the lens focuses on the background and the diopter on the foreground.) This can add hyperrealism to an emotional moment.
Arc shot - a shot in which the subject is circled by the camera
(and a paralax is like this, but the subject is moved around at a different speed from the background, so it draws attention to the subject)
Money shot - a shot that is expensive to shoot but deemed worth it for its potential to wow, startle, or generate interest.
Sequence shot - A long shot that covers a scene in its entirety in one continuous sweep without ending
Deep focus shot - a shot that keeps the foreground, middle ground, and background in sharp focus
God's eye view/bird's eye view - shot right above the action looking down.
Low angle - shot from low looking up
High angle - shot from high looking down
Movements Vocabulary:
(Content and quotes from research: https://prezi.com/qfz4gyhufoje/camera-movements/)
Pan - horizontal movement left and right
Tilt - vertical movement of the camera angle (ex - pointing the camera up and down, as opposed to moving the whole camera up and down)
Dolly - The camera is mounted on a cart on a track/slider/gimbal which travels to the side in a very smooth movement
Tracking shot (trucking shot) - similar to the dolly shot, but stays a constant distance from the action, especially side-to-side movement.
Crane - a shot taken by a camera on a crane or jib (a boom device with a camera on one end)
Steadicam - a brand of camera stabilizing mount for motion picture cameras that mechanically isolates it from the operator's movement. It allows for a smooth shot, even when moving quickly over an uneven surface. (Invented by cameraman Garrett Brown and introduced in 1975.)
Zoom - (technically not a camera movement) a change in the lens focal length which gives the illusion of moving the camera closer or further away (zoom in/out).
Zoom lens - a lens assembly allowing for adjustable focal length.
Digital zoom - an electronic emulation of focal length change.
Reverse zoom (Dolly zoom/Vertigo effect) - (technically not a camera movement) a change in the lens focal length which gives the illusion of moving the camera closer or further away (zoom in/out).
Zoom lens - a lens assembly allowing for adjustable focal length.
Digital zoom - an electronic emulation of focal length change.
But the difference between the reverse zoom and the zoom is that in the reverse zoom, the background zooms at a different rate than the foreground (or the foreground might not do any zooming at all).
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