Apr
2015
Reflection of wk6
In week 6, we did a bit exercise of camera angles. Sometimes a transition between two different size and angles of a shot would look awkward without a good shooting location. In this exercise, I operated camera, firstly there is a wide shot of two people standing opposite each other. Then we changed the camera location to have a medium shot of both of them talking to each other. We need to make it look no big difference for audience, to achieve that we have to choose very similar background like white walls. But the most important thing is the connection and direction of actors’ eye sight. They should be looking at the same spot in different size of shot and frame. And also they should be looking at each other.
What is in the background does not matter too much, but make sure there are some related elements in background, just make it look fit. Audience does not care too much about background. Camera location is quite important, it affects the way of audience watching. So locate camera at the position which is a suitable and reasonable position for last shot.