Consideration of camera

Consideration of camera

LONG SHOT
This is called a long shot. A long shot is a shot including objects at a distance. Long shots can be very intriguing and intresting shots. Long shots are used in film to stablish a scene and to also show a character in their surroundings. Long shots are very good to establish a location.

CLOSE UP
A close up shot tightly frames a person or an object. Close ups are used regularly with medium and long shots. Close ups display the most detail, but they do not include the broader scene. Close ups are used in many different ways, they are used as cut away from a more distant shots to show detail, many films use it to show someone's emotion and facial expressions and in some cases to show intricate movements and gestures.

EXTREME CLOSE UP
This is an extreme close up. Extreme close ups are used to convey extreme detail. Films will use an extreme close up to make their films more entertaining and interesting to watch. Many documentaries use these shots like this to go into extreme detail to attract views and audience.

EXTREME LONG SHOT
This is an extreme long shot. An extreme long shot will be taken from as much as a quarter of a mile away and is generally used as a scene setter and to establish a shot. As you can see in my shot to 
establish the scene of the hollywood sign, in some films they might 
used this to open a film. It normally shows an exterior, e.g. the outside of a building, or a landscape, and is often used to show scenes of thrilling action e.g. in a war film or disaster movie. There will be very little detail visible in the shot, as it is meant to give a general impression rather than specific information.

We used a couple of these shots when filming our own animation, we used a close up shot at the beginning and the end of our animation that consisted of the camera zooms in on the Teenage Cancer Trust logo. We decided to use this shot as it   was vital that we made sure the logo looked powerful and stood out, we needed to make sure that it was also very clear to all our viewers. 
We also used a birds eye view angled over view shot to film the rest of our animation. We only used this shot throughout our animation as we were able to show and express the whole movement of the hand opening and closing and the images appearing. The reason we decided not to use a variety of different shots was because we felt that they didn't appeal to the way our animation ran. In our animation we wont be using any camera movements except a close up and a tilted birds eye view of the set, the reason we decided this was because our advert mainly focused on the hand opening and closing and these shots were the only ones which fitted well.