Research - cinematography - Miss Begum

cinematography

what is a cinematography?

cinematography is looking at the way a shot is frames, the angel is is taken in such as high angle or low angle and also the movement of the camera.

 

What are the terms that in learnt in today's lesson?

• camera sizes 
• XLS - Extreme long shot
• LS - Long shot
• MS - Medium shot
• MCU - medium close up 
• CU - close up
• XCU - extreme close up
• ES - establishing shot

• Camera angle
• High angle 
• Low angle 
• Camera shot
• Panning shot 
• tilt shot



zoom in 

• 
  crane shot
• zoom capture
• point of view
• hand held 
• over the shoulder 
• face to face
• two shot
• manual focus 



crane camera

                                                                 MCS - Medium long shot

Camera Angles

 

Medium long shot is a shot only taken from knee to the head. As you can see in this picture medium long shot show most part of the background. In this picture the main focus is not the background full of fire the main focus is the male character who make this explosion. Therefore, the audiences response to this shot will be quite shocking because a huge explosion has been caused by one character

CU - Close up

 

close up is a shot taken from the shoulder to head this allows the audience to see the emotion the character is going through. Therefore in this picture which is taken from the movie ' I spit on your grave' shows us the emotion the character is going through the response to the audience to this scene is feeling sorry for the character because the character is going through a stage of doing something that they do not want to do.

 

 

Extreme close up is a shot taken closer into the face like the picture shown. Extreme close up highlights the emotions in more details such as in this picture we can see the loneliness and frightened feeling in his eyes. This makes the  audience understand the feeling the character is going through and it makes the audience feel the same way the character is.

High and Low angles

High angle makes the character look small
because its higher than the character and its aim is to make the



Low angle

character look less powerful. 


Low angles make the character bigger than they
actually are because the camera is been placed on the
floor the character to look bigger and more powerful.
 


 

 
camera movements

 In the clip 'orphan' a tilt  shot is used as the characters and their location is shown along with their actions the camera moves side to side because there is a face to face conversation going on.

 

In the clip 'fast and furious' crane movement is being
used from 0:15 to 0:20 the panning shot is being used.
 Crane movement is when the camera is following the object.

 

Conclusion: By researching cinematography it helped me develop ideas about thriller because it taught me a lot of skills that i can use in my future for my own video.