Technical Skills and Development - Camera work

Technical skills Development 

Camera work

There is a variety of different types of shots, angles and movements that is used in filming and they all have different effects and uses. Such as the establishing shot which is a wide shot used to establish a new setting and set the location of the new scene. There are also the use master shots which a shot that runs throughout the whole movie, a master shot can also overlap with an establishing shot. There are also the two and three shots where you have two or three people in the same shot which is a good way of letting the audience see the reactions of the characters at the same time and comparing them. A shot that I had seen reoccurring in thrillers was the point of view shot which lets the audience put themselves in the shoes of the character and get a better experience of what’s happening on screen.

Throughout all the thrillers I have seen that low angle shots were used frequently on the villain who is used to make them seem bigger and more threatening when compared to everyone else. A lot of close ups and extreme close ups are also used to show the facial expressions of the characters.                                                                                                                

There are also a variety of camera movements used such as a static movement where the camera has a low depth of field and the background is blurry and out of focus which is used to focus in on something usually a person or it could be an object and so that the background does not distract the audience.

There is also the use of the camera tilt where the camera starts rather at the facing the top or the bottom and it moves horizontally in the opposite direction which is used to reveal a character slowly who were previously hidden in mystery.                                                                                                                    

There is also the over the shoulder shot were the camera is placed to shoot over the shoulder of one character while they are usually talking to another character this is done to help the audience place the characters in there setting.

In Horror films a lot of POV shots are used in order to put the audience in the shoes of the villain and it is usually shown to show that the villain is stalking a victim and it makes the audience sympathise with the victim and it builds up tension making the audience feel as if the villain is about to strike when really the villain does not strike but strikes unexpectedly in order to scare the audience.