Shot Size and Camera Angles
Subject Overview
Students will learn about fundamental shot sizes and experiment with shot sizes to create meaningful settings within the frame as well as being introduced to the ‘rule of thirds’ of image positioning in a frame. Students will also learn how camera angles can create atmosphere and meaning within a film. Expanding on from mise-en-scene and symbolism in film, students learn how the choice of shot size, framing and amount of space in the camera angle can help create emotion, emphasise the feelings and situations of the characters, and suggest a character’s power and position in the film. BYOD: This course requires the use of a camera and tripod to be able to put theory into practice.
Duration
- Contact Hours: 3 hours per week
- Total Hours: 30
- Duration: 10 weeks
Aims
- Explore and experiment various fundamental shot sizes to create meaning in the frame; and emphasise the feelings and position of a character.
- Examine how shot sizes reveal and underscore important props and information that the audience needs to know.
- Observe various images and investigate how the ‘rule of thirds’ is used and implemented in the frame
- Explore the use of camera angles and how angles create atmosphere and affect audience ideas and feelings about the characters.
- Explore various comic books and how the stories are told through close up shot pictures, medium shot pictures and wide pictures; storyboard a fairytale and use various shot sizes to help tell the story.