Pans : Avengers – This is used to show the whole team as a united force by panning around one shot

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Track : Psycho – This track in is used to show how the audience are inside Norman Bates mind

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Crab : The Dark Knight –

Low Angle : The Matrix – They use the effects of a low angle to show the power of the agents over the protagonists and characters by making the audience feel less dominant.

Canted Angle : The Dark Knight – This is used to show the chaos in the room between the Joker and Batman.

Bird’s Eye Angle : The Shining – Wendy and Danny are shown as vulnerable and insignificant as shown from Jacks perspective, this is key in Jack going mad and trying to kill his family.

Extreme Long Short (XLS) – Dark – Creates a sense of loneliness after the Apocalypse

Medium Close Up (MCU) – Shows the characters reaction while showing setting behind him to explain his reactions.

Extreme Close Ups (XCU) – Shows the mythical beings in Avatar.

Cinematography – The art of photography and camerawork in film-making.

Cinematographer – A person who oversees or directs photography and camerawork in film-making, especially one who operates the camera.

The cinematographer (aka the director of photography) is the head of the camera and lighting crew. He works side by side with camera operators, camera assistants, gaffers, and the light and grip crew. The director’s main task is to interpret the script and transform it into a movie

Examples of:

Diegetic Perspective – Star Wars, Harry Potter

Intra-Diegetic – Chronicle

Extra-Diegetic – American Psycho

Shot Angles:

Low Angle : The Matrix – They use the effects of a low angle to show the power of the agents over the protagonists and characters by making the audience feel less dominant.

Canted Angle : The Dark Knight – This is used to show the chaos in the room between the Joker and Batman.

Bird’s Eye Angle : The Shining – Wendy and Danny are shown as vulnerable and insignificant as shown from Jacks perspective, this is key in Jack going mad and trying to kill his family.

Shot Movements:

Pans : Avengers – This is used to show the whole team as a united force by panning around one shot

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Track : Psycho – This track in is used to show how the audience are inside Norman Bates mind

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By Abby, Andrew, Oliver and Catalina

Here are the pictures we took on our camera to show the different lengths of shots. We used the Forrest as we thought it would be a good idea to use a Forrest to develop the character as it shows that he is running away. The mugshots are taken after this occurred

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The Shining

Props – The props are very disorganised as the chair is upside down and the paintings are skewed which creates a sense of chaos, foreshadowing later in the film. There also is an axe which connotes violence and is used to show what killed the girls. By using an axe it is more aggressive.

Make-up – Make-up is used for the blood to show the girls as bludgeoned and brutally killed. This led to the confusion of what happened to them while also adding to the terror of how awfully they were killed.

Set Design – There is a narrow corridor which adds claustrophobia as it feels like you (from Danny’s perspective) is trapped and adds to the terror of the event. Also blood is splattered across the walls suggesting that although is was murder, it wasn’t clean, it was brutal and careless.

Props – Mjolnir (Thor’s Hammer) – Thor’s hammer is a crucial prop to Thor as it shows the measure of his character being that only someone worthy can wield it therefore showing a character arc of becoming a snobby prince into someone who really cares.

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Costumes – The Matrix – The black costumes with trench coats add to the mystery of each character as well makes them look stylish. It also adds a futuristic and sci-fi feel of the movie. It also juxtaposes from the cool clothing while in the Matrix to the washed out monotony of the real world

Hair and Make-up – Edward Scissorhands – The scruffy untamed hair suggests that Edward is sad and lonely without a care about appearance. The pasty white makeup highlights his hair and black clothing as well as the pain and illness that he feels.

Set Design – 2001: A Space Odyssey – The classic Kubrick symmetry as well as great sets (centrifuge jogging sequence) creates a 1960s view of the future which allures viewers.

Location – New Zealand – With Lord of the Rings and the new Narnia films being set there, the rolling green hills of New Zealand is a great location for backdrops and creating a world with verisimilitude.

Lighting – Schindler’s List – Being in black and white, lighting is essential to emphasis the mood of fear, hope and anger is portrayed in lighting.

Film Stock – Ben-Hur (1959) – By employing 70mm anamorphic camera lenses and 65mm film stock, the film has a very wide perspective, creating a more grand sense of scale.

Space – Interstellar – The negative space in the background creates a long shot which emphasises how large the planet and therefore the universe is.