In class Wed Oct 11th

The camera's lens is the eyes of the audience!






or "Birdman"




Camera Angles, Movement and POV

Camera Angle

Eye Level

• An eye-level shot is the most basic type of shot and involves simply picking up a camera or video recorder and taking a straight-on, eye-level photograph. 

High Angle

• A high-angle shot involves taking a photograph from someplace above a subject at a diagonal angle. 

Low Angle (Worms Eye)

• In a low-angle shot, the photographer is below the subject and takes a photograph looking up at the subject. 

Bird's Eye

• A shot similar to the high-angle, a bird's eye shot looks straight on at a subject rather than using an angle. 

Slanted

• A slanted shot, or dutch tilt, is where the camera is tilted to the side to give the horizon a unique, angled appearance

Camera Point of View (POV)

Close-Ups

• A close-up (abbreviated "CU") is when the camera focuses on just one character's face or other part of them, taking up the entire frame. When the camera zooms directly into part of a person's face or body, so that the frame shows nothing but his body, this is an extreme close-up, or ECU. Going in the opposite direction, a medium close-up (MCU) is halfway between a standard CU and a mid-shot--which shows part of the scene and the subject.

Wide Shots

• Wide Shots (WS) give a great view of the entire area your subject is standing in, and you can see the person's entire body against the backdrop of his setting. 

Multiple People Shots.

• Conversations between two people require a special camera angle to capture the intimacy of the conversations. A two shot (TS) is the most common way to show conversation: place both subjects in the same mid-shot. The next most familiar style is the over-the-shoulder shot, or OSS, which looks at the talking subject from the listener's perspective, quite literally over his shoulder. 

POV

• The first-person perspective is called a POV shot. It is pretty much what the character would see as if they are holding the camera themselves. 

Weather Shots

• If the subject is the weather itself, it is referred to as a weather shot. These images give the viewer a moment's reprieve from the action or drama of the film as well as establishing what's going on in the world around them. 

Camera Movement

1. Pans

• A movement which scans a scene horizontally. The camera is placed on a tripod, which operates as a stationary axis point as the camera is turned, often to follow a moving object which is kept in the middle of the frame.

2. Tilts

• A movement which scans a scene vertically, otherwise similar to a pan.

3. Dolly Shots

• Sometimes called TRUCKING or TRACKING shots. The camera is placed on a moving vehicle and moves alongside the action, generally following a moving figure or object. 

4. Hand-held shots

• The hand-held movie camera first saw widespread use during World War II, when news reporters took their windup Arriflexes and Eyemos into the heat of battle, producing some of the most arresting footage of the twentieth century. The Steadicam (a heavy contraption which is attached a camera to an operator by a harness. The camera is stabilized so it moves independently) was debuted in Marathon Man (1976), bringing a new smoothness to hand held camera movement and has been used to great effect in movies and TV shows ever since. 

5. Crane Shots

• Basically, dolly-shots-in-the-air. 

6. Zoom Lenses

• A zoom lens contains a mechanism that changes the magnification of an image. On a still camera, this means that the photographer can get a 'close up' shot while still being some distance from the subject. A video zoom lens can change the position of the audience, either very quickly (a smash zoom) or slowly, without moving the camera an inch, thus saving a lot of time and trouble. 

7. The Aerial Shot

• An exciting variation of a crane shot, usually taken from a helicopter. 

Make Decisions about your Motion Graphic Sequence

1) Do you want to make a Trailer or Title Sequence?

2) Research research the pacing and the types of imagery found in your movie genre. How many cuts are there? 

3) Which of the 10 title sequences do you think would work best for your movie?

 Mapping out your Motion Graphic Sequence

- How many changes do you want to have in the sequence?

- What direction is the content moving in each part? How does it relate to the parts before and after?

- How long is each part?

- What content do you need to collect for each part?

- What is the purpose of each part? (what do you want your viewer to get out of it?)

How to use Animate and Video in Photoshop

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Photoshop Video
- Open the "Timeline". You can find it under "Window"
To use video in Photoshop:

1) Drag a video file onto the Photoshop icon, it will appear in the Layers window and the Timeline window


2) Select the layer and "control"click to bring up the menu. Pick "convert to smart object"

3) To make a new video layer click the drop down menu on the videos timeline and click "new video group".

3a)You can duplicate video layers

4) Layer Adjustments, Blend modes and Opacity all work the same as still images

5) Saving and Rendering - To save your file "Save As" a .PSD

- To save the final video file goto "File" --> "Render Video"