This what I have for my blogging assignment # 4. Honestly, this quite interesting. haha.. or maybe I'm just saying that because I am being biased since I'm quite into video stuffs than photography, layout etc; video editing was a hobby of mine and it's actually what got my into the multimedia arts field. By the way, I attached a picture as a guide for the camera movements.. it's from the book Video Basics 6 by Herbert Zettl. Anyway, here's my actual blog.haha.:
1. Pan – To pan is to turn the camera horizontally, from left to right or from right to left. To pan right means to swivel or move the camera clockwise so that the lens points more to the right; to pan left means to swivel or move the camera counterclockwise so that the lens points more to the left.
In making a film, you may apply this movement when…
...you are following a subject or you wish to show the distance between two objects; pan shots also work great for panoramic views such as a shot from a mountaintop to the valley below.
2. Tilt – To tilt is to make the camera point up or down. A tilt up means to point the camera gradually up.; a tilt down means to point the camera gradually down.
In making a film, you may apply this movement when…
…you are following a subject or you wish to show the top and bottom of a stationary object; with a tilt, you can also show how high something is (example, the slow tilt up a Giant Sequoia tree shows its grandness and enormity).
3. Cant – To cant is to tilt the camera sideways. You can cant the camera either left or right. When you cant right, the horizon line will be slanted uphill; its low point will be screen-left, its high point screen-right.
In making a film, you may apply this movement when…
…you want to show the perspective of dizzy or nauseous character as he/she is about to be unconscious; of course, you have to add a bit special effects (i.e. blurriness) to make this shot more effective.
4. Pedestal – To pedestal is to elevate or lower the camera on the center column of a tripod or studio pedestal. To pedestal up you crank or pull up the center column, thereby raising the camera. To pedestal down you crank or pull down the center column, lowering the camera.
In making a film, you may apply this movement when…
…you are following a/an descending or ascending subject, object or character and you want a full/straight view of them as they descend/ascend.
5. Dolly – To dolly is to move the camera toward or away from an object in more or less a straight line by means of a mobile camera mount. When you dolly in, you move the camera closer to the object; when you dolly out or dolly back, you move the camera farther away.
In making a film, you may apply this movement when…
…you want to follow an object smoothly to get a unique perspective. Sometimes, directors would combine the dolly and a zoom shot for a real sense of doom. The camera lens zooms into the subject at the same time as the camera physically dollies out; the results would be the character remains the same size, but the background appears to move.
6. Truck – To truck, or track, is to move the camera laterally by means of a mobile camera mount. When you truck right or truck left, you move the camera mount to the right or left with the camera lens pointing at a right angle to the direction of travel.
In making a film, you may apply this movement when…
…let’s say, you are following your subject walking on a sidewalk, you would truck with the camera alongside on the street, with the lens pointing your subject.
7. Arc – To arc is to move the camera in a slightly curved dolly or truck movement. To arc left means that you dolly in or out in a camera-left curve, or you truck left in a curve around the object. To arc right means that you dolly in or out in a camera-right curve, or you truck right in a curve around the object.
In making a film, you may apply this movement when…
…you are shooting a moving subject and/or if you wish to reveal new details about the background that the subject is standing in front of.
8. Crane – To crane up or boom up means to raise the boom with the attached camera; to crane down or boom down means to lower the boom and the attached camera.
In making a film, you may apply this movement when…
…you wish to create a bird's eye view. It looks as if the camera is swooping down from above (example, from above the crowd and the traffic, and then move down to eye level).
9. Tongue – To tongue is to move the whole camera from left to right or from right to left with the boom of a camera crane or jib arm. When you tongue left or right, the camera usually points in the same general direction, with only the boom swinging left or right.
In making a film, you may apply this movement when…
…like the arc, you are shooting a moving subject and/or if you wish to reveal new details about the background that the subject is standing in front of; this camera movement actually covers more height than the arc.
10. Zoom – To zoom is to change the focal length to a lens through the use of a zoom control while the camera remains stationary. To zoom in means to change the lens gradually to a narrow-angle position, thereby, making the scene appear to move closer to the viewer; to zoom out means to change the less gradually to a wide-angle position thereby making the scene appear to move farther away from the viewer.
In making a film, you may apply this movement when…
…you wish to bring objects at a distance closer to the lens, or to show size and perspective.
http://blog.vasukibelavadi.com/how-to-select-the-right-camera-movement/
http://www.videomaker.com/article/10775
http://www.videomaker.com/article/14221
http://www.steves-digicams.com/knowledge-center/how-tos/photography-techniques/camera-movement-understanding-the-arc.html
Video Basics 6 by Herbert Zettl (books.google.com.ph/books?isbn=0495572489)