Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Camera Movements Creating Emotion


Summary:
Emotions can be evoked from camera movements.
Smooth and shaky movements can emphasize certain emotions and support a story.
Crane shot down gives a feeling of being dropped into the character's world and moves you into the story.
A shot from an actor or object into a wide vista shot gives a feeling of how small the character is or how large an obstacle is.
A high to low shot makes the character look strong and gives a feeling of authority. Handheld movement creates a feeling of uneasiness or danger.
A quick pan changes the emotional direction of a scene quickly--it reveals something dangerous or something to overcome.
A quick push in creates a feeling of surprise or shock.
A slow dolly in creates tension and intimacy (whether uncomfortable or helps share emotion) while a slow dolly out gives a character a lost and abandoned feel (creating empathy and a relationship).
A dolly across reveals action or change of emotion.
A smooth glide cam between subjects creates a ballet or dance to feel epic and dreamlike.
Handheld camera creates a edgy, stressful feel to push emotion right in a viewer's face.
A glide cam going in and 360 around an object gives a "calm before the storm feeling."
Dolly + Zoom = Zolly and the background gets larger or smaller while the person remains the same, creating an overwhelming emotion as if there is an out-of-body experience and it's blowing their mind.

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