Camera Angles and Movements - Mini Project

Here is a video made by me and Rara to experiment with different camera angles and movements.

1. Medium shot

This shot technique captures the subject’s body language as a whole. This helps the audience to deduce easily how she is feeling (anxious, lonely, and depressed).

2. Long shot

The shot captures a quiet situation around the subject, by this it may emphasize more focus on the subject. Additionally, it also shows the audience how the subject is more lonely and isolated, which shows resemblance to the subject’s emotions. The focus on the subject may help the audience interpret the subject’s emotions more clearly.

3. Static

The use of this camera movement shows the loneliness and sadness the subject is facing as the subject is going through different emotions, and the stillness captures her emotions without any lines conveyed. Barely any movements are recorded hence it focuses more on her reactions.

4. Close up

This camera movement technique is mostly shown in circumstances when the subject appears to be texting/looking into the subject’s phone, it brings the audience’s focus on the phone (the messages) and it explains how and why the subject is feeling down/stressed. Another scene with this technique is also used to draw the audience’s attention to tears as it falls to the table, this shows clearly that the subject is feeling upset without visually seeing the subject’s emotion literally.

5. Pull out

It makes the subject appear lonely and more “depressing” as it reveals how the main subject is sitting all by herself, as opposed to the subject’s surroundings. And it also disconnects with the audience as it slowly brings the audience away from the subject.

𝑺𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝑹𝒆𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏:

We are able to use camera angles and shots to convey emotional messages conveyed in the plot. The identification and usage of camera shots captures everything required and vital to the storyline. We are also able to create camera movements to engage with the audience's feeling (Sympathy). As a mini project, I think that we did well for the short video as we already have prior knowledge in what to include for the technical elements. Although, a struggle when creating this video is managing the time as we kept on retaking scenes because we felt that it was unnecessary, leading to a slightly late submission. Additionally, music choice was not the right choice as the decision is rushed.