Camerawork

• Frontality

  Eyeline looks at Audience

  Creates relationship with audience
• Modified frontality

  Audience can see emotion

  Audience can see full facial expression

  However the eyeline doesn't look at the camera
• Profile

  Side of face

  Actor is looking at something
• Over the shoulder

  We look behind someone

  Puts the audience in their position

  We can see facial expressions
• Focus

  Which parts are sharp

  This attracts attention
• Deep focus

  See deep into the shot

  Background and foreground is sharp
• Shallow focus

  Foreground is sharp

  Rest is blurred
• Pull focus

  Focus changes in the same shot
• Composition

  Size

  Hierarchy

  Centre

  Foreground
• Centralised

  Character or objects are in the centre of the frame
• Balanced

  Main character or object is in middle

  Equal space on both sides
• Symmetry

  Both sides of frame are equal
• Rule of thirds

  A guide line of putting the subject I the left or right third of an image
• Extreme close up

  ECU

  Forehead to mouth
• Tight close up

  TCU

  Head
• Close up

  CU

  Head and top of shoulders
• Medium close up

  MCU

  Head and shoulders
• Medium shot

  MS

  Face and upper body
• Medium long shot

  MLS

  Body seen from legs up
• Long shot

  LS

  Full body
• Extreme long shot

  ELS

  Full body + frame
• Ariel shot

  Whole shot

  Wide

  Establishing
• High angle


  Less power

  Subject feels smaller
• Low angle

  More power

  Subject looks bigger
• Canted angle

  Imbalance
• Pan left/right

  Looks side to side
• Tilt up/down

  Look up and down
• Roll clockwise/anticlockwise

  Rotate
• Zoom in/out

  Lense moves closer or nearer
• Track

  Move anywhere
• Handheld

  Jerky movements
• Steodicam/dolly

  Smooth movement
• Whip pan

  Very quick movement