Preliminary Exercise 10: Camera Movement Organizer Blog Post

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  Introduction Paragraph

Hello hello! Guess what we are talking about in this post? That's right, camera movement!!

So, what is camera movement? Well, camera movement is how a camera moves during a scene. Pretty simple right?

Camera movement is an important part of planning a film, because it puts "seasoning" on a scene. It enhances the scene, to make it more enjoyable for the audience.

A camera can move in multiple ways to tell a story, but 4 ways a camera can move are:

• Left-to-right
• Up-and-down
• Zooming in
• Zooming out

Like I said before, camera movement can make the audience feel a wide range of emotions. For example, suspense is one emotion usually felt with intense sudden camera movement. Also, it makes the audience feel more interested in the film. For me at least, every time that I spot a cool kind of camera movement, I'm in awe. It's amazing to see how cinematographers come up with such awesome ways to portray camera movement.

For this assignment, the goal is to understand camera movement, so we can put it to use later. I created a PowerPoint template of an organizer, so my team and I can fill out information to fully portray 12 camera movements in film.

Now, let me show you what we did!

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The Powerpoint Slides

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Reflection...

All in all, the objective of this activity was to create a "Camera Movement Technique" organizer showing the many ways a camera can be moved to narrate a story.

There was this YouTube video called "Whiplash vs. Black Swan - The Anatomy of the Obsessed Artist" made by Lessons from the Screenplay. It's a video essay comparing and contrasting the two movies. As I watched this video, I noticed that both movies show camera movements that illustrate the character's emotions. If the character was feeling stressed, then the camera would move frantically. I found it intriguing, and that's how I got introduced to camera movement techniques in film.

As mentioned previously, I created a PowerPoint template organizer, so that we can fill out information about camera movement.

We decided that since there are 4 of us, we should split up the 12 camera movements by 3. 

I created the template, and I did the first three techniques. Khloe R. did the second set of three techniques. 

Lexi M. did the third set of techniques, while Marley B. did the fourth set of techniques. We then filled out the organizer together, using icons and pictures (created by us) to illustrate examples of the techniques.

The only app used was PowerPoint. I would say we were all experts at utilizing the app.

I learned how camera movements make a film unique. It also helps the audience feel a certain kind of emotion based on which technique is used. Thanks for popping in! P is officially signing off.

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WORK CITED

DeGuzman, K., Kyle DeGuzman                                                                                                                                                                            Kyle DeGuzman graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelo and Kyle DeGuzman graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelor of Science in Television (2023) Watch: Ultimate guide to camera movement: When & how to use camera movement... explained, StudioBinder. Available at: https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/different-types-of-camera-movements-in-film/ (Accessed: 12 December 2023).