Camera Lesson With Adam

20.09.2014

Camera Lesson With Adam

In the camera lessons with Adam we learnt about the three main types of camera angles which are almost guaranteed to appear in any film out there.  They are; the close up, the mid-shot and the long shot.

The close up

Close-ups vary from extreme close ups to the head to shoulders shots.  The main use of close-ups in to convey emotions, a  director may use to have a close-up during an individuals face during a scene to show how they are feeling, so the audience gets a sense of their emotions.  

The Mid-shot

Mid-shots usually show and individual from the waist up, helping to show the audience both the character and what is going on in the background. They are used a lot when a character is creating big gestures, so the audience can see all of their body language.  With a mid-shot you get a better idea of what is going on overall in a scene, but loose some of the intimacy that a close-up has. They also are used when more that one person is being shown in a scene, they help to convey the relationships between individual.

The Long Shot

This type of shot shows a lot of what is going on in the background of a scene, sometimes known as an establishing shot as the audience get to see where a specific scene is taking place, helping to put the whole scene into context.  There is very little intimacy in a long shot as the individuals in a frame are being seen from quite a distance so it is hard to get a sense of their emotions which is why long shots are usually followed up by close-ups.

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