In cinematography, a low-angle shot, is a shot from a camera angle positioned low on the vertical axis, anywhere below the eye line, looking up. Sometimes, it is even directly below the subject’s feet. Psychologically, the effect of the low-angle shot is that it makes the subject look strong and powerful.
High-angle shot
A high-angle shot is a cinematic technique where the camera looks down on the subject from a high angle and the point of focus often gets “swallowed up”. High-angle shots can make the subject seem vulnerable or powerless when applied with the correct mood, setting, and effects
Eye-Level Shot
The eye level shot is exactly what it sounds like: the cinematographer positions the camera angle directly at the eye level of the character. The subject is usually captured from the knees to the head, with very little surrounding context.
During our project there was many times that reshooting was needed due to either me or Noah laughing or one of us being in the back of a shot which we shouldn’t be in or just not being ready or not being told that we were filming.
For next time I believe it would be better if we got counted in as we knew when the shot was being recorded
The extreme close-up shot is traditionally used in film to allow the viewer to enter the character’s intimate space, revealing certain characteristics and emotions that would otherwise go unnoticed from afar.
Extreme Long Shot
In film, a view of a scene that is shot from a considerable distance, so that people appear as indistinct shapes. An extreme long shot, on the other hand, is a shot that frames the character or subject from a distance and focuses primarily on their surroundings. This shot is often used as an establishing shot for location or setting, before focusing on the character or scene
Medium Shot
The medium shot, sometimes also called a mid-shot or waist shot, is a film shot that stretches from around the waist (or sometimes the knees) of a subject up to their head. (Sometimes people also use it to refer to full-length views.) The director of photography uses a medium shot to clearly show the actor’s face and emotions while still informing the audience of what’s going on in the world around them.
I think our filming in our Joker project could’ve been better planned out, as we found ourselves making up shots we needed and wanting to refilm lots of shots in order to help our editing come together.
My editing too could’ve been better planned alongside the filming, as this would’ve created a more thought-out production.
Diegetic perspective or “gaze” is expressed in terms of how the audience is being asked to look at the content or subjects on screen by the director e.g. what is being emphasised through the use of close up?
INTRA-DIEGETIC
The intra-diegetic gaze is when the audience are put in the place of a character and being asked to see things from their viewpoint e.g. through the use of subjective camerawork in films like Cloverfield ().
The use of Intra-diegetic in ‘The Blair Witch Project’ helps the audience feel in the world of the movie as the audience views and watches everything that the characters see from their point of view, this helps the film feel grounded and not overly unrealistic, the use of a found footage film and intra-diegetic also works well with the genre of the film of it being a horror film.
EXTRA-DIEGETIC
The extra-diegetic gaze is when someone on screen addresses the audience directly by looking directly down the lens of the camera– sometimes known as “breaking the 4th wall”. Not to be confused with the above when the audience are being asked to the “perspective” of another character.
Extra-diegetic gaze is used throughout Ferris Buellers Day off Ferris breaks the fourth wall multiple times in his explanation of what he is about to do. He is skipping school for the ninth day in the same semester—and shamelessly showing us his entire secret game plan. This automatically makes him a likable character.
Gross box office = total earnings of the movie by selling tickets.
This means the more people that watch the movie the higher the box office will be.
this image demonstrates that in recent years the most likely way your film will be successful is if the movie is part of a pre-existing franchise, this is because these film franchises have previously established fans and most commonly are made from pre-existing media that already has a large fanbase.
In addition, most films that are successful are not aged rated higher than 12a as this allows the film to be accessible to most ages without limiting key demographics.
Another common factor is that most successful films are big budget and have well known actors in them to help promote the film to their previously established large fan bases.
