Report on a resource about a film element
I found one web site that satisfies three and even more of the film elements. I picked three to write about all of them are from Shot length and camera depth. The first was Longshot it shows all or most of a large subject example a person. The second medium shots in this type of a shot the actor and setting occupy equal areas in the frame. The third element I picked was close-up which is when the picture shows a small part of the scene example a actors face. This web site had answers to so many of the film elements like shot angles, camera techniques and movements. For example it had Point of view shot, two-shot, angle of shot, zoom, surveying pan, tracking and tilt and that just to name a few. This was a very good web site and it had so much information. The web page also gives you pictures to help explain some of the camera angles and shot. It’s a picture of a creepy doll but you get the idea.
March 24th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
Sarah, it seems most people researched pretty much the same film elements as did I, so I was happy to find that you had chosen differently. It is strange that I was not able to access your resource in the blog, but reached it through the link in your Furl, even though the address is the same. I have experienced a few problems with getting links to appear correctly in this software, so maybe that is where the bug lies.
I think the creepy doll was the perfect way to illustrate the shots (as well as amusing), because there are no other distractions in the frame. In addition, it is easier to compare the differences between the types of shots because the subject is exactly the same. On some websites, I have seen examples that are different frames from movies, and it can be harder to discern the more subtle differences in the types of shots. Great find!
March 25th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
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March 26th, 2006 at 4:18 am
Sarah,
I think that this is a very good link. Just like Diane, I was not able to access the webpage at first, but I was able to read Diane’s comment about when she went in to your furl to see the webpage and I was then able to link through to the page. I liked the fact that they were able to actually show you the different Camera Techniques with a doll. I definitely agree that it is easier to understand the different kinds of shots by just focusing in one element with no distracting backgrounds.