From the course: Learning Cinematography: 1 Narrative Fundamentals
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How camera movement relates to story
From the course: Learning Cinematography: 1 Narrative Fundamentals
How camera movement relates to story
- Now, I wanna talk about your options for moving the camera. The specific method you decide to use to move the camera matters, because that method will carry a lot of the weight of what that camera movement says to the audience. There are two ends of the spectrum in camera movement. At the one end, you can move the camera smoothly, as with a device like a dolly. At the other end, we can allow it to move as if it were a person viewing the scene. This could be done by handholding the camera. Somewhere in between these two would be to use a device like a Steadicam. In most cases, we use a combination of these methods in a given scene. Take for instance, this scene from minority report. A camera move is used to show the audience that the world of the rare people who can tell the future, known as precogs, lives in a different world from normal people. The camera sweeps into their world smoothly and dramatically. The second goal of the camera move is to establish the special relationship…
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