Camera Movement

in this lesson, we went over different types of camera movement and how there is usually two ways to do different types of camera movement one with a fixed camera and one with a moving camera. different types of movement include

• Pan (fixed camera moving horizontally)
• Crab (freely moving camera moving horizontally)
• Tilt (fixed camera moving From low angle to high angle or vice versa)
• Ped (freely moving camera moving vertically holding the same angle)
• Zoom (fixed camera zooms in on a point of interest along Z-axis)
• Track (freely moving camera moving towards something along Z-Axis)

We looked at various clips portraying different uses of the camera movement shots and showed how different shots were used more than others to portray different emotions.

In this scene from superman returns they use a extremely slow track to emphasize the rising tension throughout the scene and conversation

 We then looked at the Bourne identity fight scene to show how a handheld camera with a lot of tracking shots helps the audience become part of the movie itself

We looked at the 'Get out of the water' scene from jaws in which Spielberg tracks in with the camera while zooming out this kept the central picture the same while distorting the field of view to portray a perplexed feeling making the audience feel like somethings wrong

after this we decided to look at the book of eli hijackers scene to show how camera movement can be used to portray a heightening level of tension throughout a sinister feeling.

 We compared the 'Book of Eli' to a scene from an old star trek episode which used a static camera and a lot of zooms with a really slow paced fight scene and all the types of camera movement used make the scene very boring and feel extremely unrealistic and artificial not bringing the audience in and heightening their tension

we watched a clip from 'Moonrise kingdom' by Wes Anderson who uses a crab shot for the entire scene and all scene progression is moving to the right.