Camera shots : Week 1
As an ordinary audience of films, the feeling and the sensation can be felt by shot types and sizes during the screening, but the actual function of them individually might not be excessively obvious.
This week, different shot types have been the subject of the discussion in the lectures and lessons.
We had a look at how each individual shot can convey a sense and feeling or even a piece of information.
As we consider cameras and their lenses as human eyes it is possible to understand the reason why each of them makes the viewer feel a certain way. It can be because of our experiences throughout life and seeing different things happening with our eyes, hence after seeing something similar to those moments with the similar angle and point of view it reminds us of the feelings we experienced those times.
For instance, the idea of seeing something or someone from low angle shot might remind us times we used to see something really big when we were a child and the idea of that makes us think the subject is big, important, strong etc.
Or when we focus on something to have a better understanding of it we often try to get closer to it to see it in a more clear way, this can happen for closer shots like insert, close shot and close up...
Generally shot types are connected to the way we see the world and their sizes are useful in order to take us back deeply into our unconscious mind and make us feel the to aimed way.
Apart from understanding the importance of shots we improved the understanding of how they can be used aesthetically in order to aid both the filmmaker and viewer to present and receive the point better and in a more pleasant way. It is important for the whole work to be pleasant watching otherwise it will loose its audience due to being visually unpleasant and even irritating.
sometimes the director wants a more smooth shot rather than a mechanical one so many different decisions might be taken to have that smoothness, panning, tracking, tilt, are the examples that can be used to show what meant to be shown in a way which the sequence will not require more cuts.
Choosing shots and distinguishing between a wide range of them is indeed one of the most important things that director do; because the audience will feel and perceive the film based on the whole experience they had after watching it. One of the elements is shot types and their orders or arrangements.
Therefor, every frame and shot has its own way of offering data to establish the sympathy.
All in all, shots have the potential to be effective in related to both content and aesthetics matters in the film; they should be looked as a small but powerful and required elements of making a film as an art work with strength.
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