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AS Media Studies
Unit G322a:
Textual Analysis and Representation
In looking at camera work the following areas need to be considered:
Shot typePositionAngleCompositionDepth of fieldMovement
NB – Other useful docs on Moodle – Technical Aspects of the Moving Imagehttp://moodle.reigate.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=20
The camera is the viewers eyes in a scene
…so, the camera position also dictates the viewers relationship with the action or characters in the scene.
How do the following images make you feel?
Low angle High angle Tilted angle (sometimes
called ‘dutch’ or ‘canted’)
Birds eye view Worms eye view Eye level When/why do you think
the different camera angles might be used?
Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995)
A frame’s depth of field refers to the focal length.
Deep focus - where a frame shows everything sharp or in focus.
To get an idea of how this works put your finger in front of your face and concentrate on it. The finger will appear in focus and the background blurred. NowNow concentrate on the background, the human eye ‘pulls’ focus from the foreground to the background.
Selective focus - when a particular part of the frame is picked out and the rest of the frame is blurred or indistinct.
Pull or ‘rack’ focus - when the focal point changes within the frame.
Pan
Tracking
Tilt
Crab
Crane
Handheld
Zoom lens
Watch the clips from Skins and The Bill
What effect does camerawork, in
particular camera movement, have?
The Bill: http://estream.reigate.ac.uk/View.aspx?ID=820
Skins: Series 1, Episode 1- Café scene chapter