Camera Movements

Doctor Strange

Panning: Multiple camera movements are used when Strange is going through different universes. However panning is used to show the size of them as a whole when Strange is going through each one, as the audience learns about this cinematic universes scale.

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Crab: The fight in the mirror world also uses a few different camera movements however this is done to show how the world twists the real world. So by the use of the crab technique as an example it shows the world twisting around the characters making it unlike anything seen before. This is used as a way to blow the audience away by how the scene tries trick the audience.

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Ped: The use of a pedestal shot, is done to reveal the villain fully to Doctor Strange and the audience while showing his might by the use of his size while pedding.

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Inter-Digetic Perspective

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In Cloverfield, they use an Inter-Digetic Perspective throughout the whole film. This is used to give the audience a new perspective, like they’re one of the characters in the film. It also gives us less information about the film, leaving us to guess more. Stuff like not knowing so much about the monster, or what other characters are thinking. you only know as much s the character does.

Shots, movement and angles – activity 2

Close up –

This close up shot of the character of spiderman dying in his mentor, tony stark’s,  arms is used to press emotion onto the audience. The two characters have a sort of father son dynamic as peter doesn’t have a father figure and tony wants a child, because of this a relationship has been set up with the characters across   a few prior films that really makes this shot heartbreaking for fans and used to show the weight of thanos’ victory on the other characters as well as the audience.

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Big close up –

This close up is mainly used to divert the audiences expectations, as as Thor arrives at the big final fight in the film everything is set up to be a last minute victory for the heroes, and this close up of the “bad guy” of the film, Thanos, with a giant axe in his chest and a pained look on his face gives an audience the impression that the heroes had won, this is also shown in the positioning of the characters, while thor is higher up and holding thanos’ head while thanos looks so weak he cant even hold his head up straight,  however at the last second the bad guy completes his plan and the heroes lose, which has a massive impact on the audiance as it was the opposite of what they expected.

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Long Shots –

These long shots are used to show the scale of the war. They are there to show the stakes of this fight, the characters know that if they lose this fight they lose half the people on the planet, so they need as many people as they can get, and these shots show the audience how many people are risking their own life for a greater cause, these shots inspire the audience and make them feel their heroes have a chance, which in this film is important as this whole fight is used to build up the audiences expectations of the heroes victory, only to crush these expectations with thanos’ eventual victory.

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Cinematography Activity 2

An example of a medium long shot is in the film The Dark Knight (2008, Christopher Nolan). This had the effect that it presented the severity of the explosion.Image result for long shots in film

An example of a close up shot is The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick) I think that the effect was that the viewer was that they see the antagonists face and the emotions that they are portraying.

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An example of an extreme close up is in Revenge Of The Sith (2005, George Lucas) I think that the viewer would notice the details of General Grievous

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Diegetic gaze

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“Saving Private Ryan” (Steven Spielberg,1998) uses diegetic gaze well because it helps the audience to focus on the characters in the closeup rather than the background. The background has been blurred out and therefore one can only focus on the actor in the foreground. Due to this, the audience can really feel the emotion and the audience gets a very good idea of what is actually happening to the character specifically rather than just seeing the development of the narrative.

Shot Distances

The Dark Knight

Long Shot: The most iconic shot in the Dark Knight is when Batman stares down when standing on a rubble. The audience will feel surprised as this is the first time they have seen Batman fail. As well this shot captures the fallen rubble what shows how Batman’s world has collapsed.

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Close Shot: Joker speaking to Harvey Dent after his face is burned. This close shot could be seen as how alike Dent is to the Joker but also is used to hide what Dent has become.

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Mid-Long Shot: Joker in prison where he is calm and relaxed. By showing most of his body and focusing on his posture what shows him not being anxious but collected foreshadowing what is to come in the next 2 scenes with him.

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Use of extra diegetic gaze

“the Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (1966, Sergio Leone) uses extra diegetic close-up shots very well. Generally, they are used to show the raw emotion that the actor is displaying. A close up on an angry face will make the audience feel their rage, a close up on a scared person will make them feel their anxiety. extra diegetic close-up shots are very good at making the audience feel empathetic towards the actors as the emotions are so powerful, it is as if the audience are feeling it themselves.

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