Blog Post #32- Practicing Camera angles

When thinking about my final shot, I started practicing the camera angle I want to use. For a reminder, my protagonist is going to wish she was a different person in her bedroom before going to sleep. She then goes to sleep and when she wakes up, she is in a new bedroom and a completely new person. 

In this video it is me and my sister practicing the camera shots. My sister will not be in the film, I was just using her to practice. However, the bedroom she is in will be in the final scene. For these four clips I tried out different angles I might want to use during my film. The lighting will also be different since there is a certain time range the scene takes place. 

Camera angles are crucial to a film because it is what captures what is happening. Whether you use over the shoulder, close up, two person shot, establishing shot, etc. The camera angle is what captures what happens in the scene and how a film is meant to be pertained. 

                                     

For example, in the movie "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York". In this scene they used a close-up shot as a way to show that the protagonist was shocked and scared in this moment. This is a picture from the scene. By having the picture close up rather than far away helps audience members understand that he is shocked. If the scene was shot as a full body shot for example, we would understand the fact that he is screaming but we would not be able to tell his genuine emotion from his facial expressions. 

Camera angles helps with building a scene and understanding the emotion and tone meant to be understood from the scene.