Camera angles and shots video

              

Explaination of shots

Long shot - usually used to establish the setting for the audience, or make the character(s) look isolated and vulnerable as they are small on the screen.

Extreme Long shot - used similarly to Long shot to establish a setting or again to show the vulnerability of character(s).

Mid Shot - usually used so we can see most of the characters body and they're facial expressions and reactions, but we can also see other things around them like what they are focusing on.

Close up - used to show a focus point for the audience, whether its facial expressions and reactions to show emotions; an object of importance; or pans into a close up so its clear to the audience what is of importance.

Extreme Close up - similar to close up however the shot is closer, again similar reasons for this however the extreme close up shows more emotions of a character and gives more focus onto an object.

Low angle - it makes the character look bigger so therefore makes them look more powerful and important to the audience.

High angle - it makes the character look smaller therefore makes them look more vulnerable and inferior to the audience. often used with an over the shoulder shot to establish who is more powerful to the audience and who is weaker, and I often judge who is weaker and who is stronger because when there's usually a conflict I have an expectation of who is going to win and who is going to lose.

Panning shot - A little bit similar to long shot but it moves along, it either follows a character or establishes a scenery.

Shot reverse shot - often used in conversation between characters or about what a character is talking about to easily show a conversation to the audeince.


In the video I tried to mostly use the rule of thirds as is often used in films because it shows importance to characters, objects or locations as the audeince tend to look more important when theyre put into one of the focus points in the thirds.
It was hard to apply the 180 degree rule with only one character and no important objects or loactions however this is an important rule i understand when filming. The rule is to keep characters and objects on the same side in every shot otherwise the audeince will get confused between characters, and may focus on trying figure out who is who not on the narrative or effects etc.


Shots I havent included

Tilt shot - often used to show confusion in a scene to represent how the character feels as the camera is unexpenctantly not at an angle we are used to.