Camera Movement is a great technique to add another layer or dimension to our filming and form different interpretations for our target audience to infer and getting them more involved and intrigued in to the film, hence why I did another independent research of how to perfect this technique and found as much detail about it as possible. The main types of camera movements:
- Pan- this involves moving the camera horizontally. It is often used to follow a subject or to show the difference between two objects. It can also be used to give the viewer a panoramic view of the setting.
- Tilt-Often used to follow a subject or to show the top and bottom of a stationary object, panning is extremely effective to connote possession of power or vulnerability of characters. Tilting up makes a character look much larger and thicker(more powerful), where as tilting down makes the character look smaller and thinner(less powerful).
- Pedestal- Physically moving the camera diagonally, usually on a tripod. This is used to show the size of a character or object and potentially connote either danger or innocence.
- Dolly-The camera is set on tracks or wheels and moved towards or back from a subject.This is done to follow an object smoothly to get a unique perspective. In some movies directors combine the dolly and a zoom shot for a real sense of doom. To do this, the camera lens zooms into the subject at the same time as the camera physically dollies out, and the person in the shot remains the same size, but the background appears to move. It's difficult to master smoothly, but done right, the shot conveys a real sense of tension and feeling of vertigo.
- Crane-This works and looks similar to a construction crane. It is used for high sweeping shots or to follow the action of your subject. It gives a bird's eye view and looks as if the camera is swooping down from above.This is often used for street scenes so they can shoot from above the crowd and the traffic, and then move down to eye level.
- Handheld- Holding the camera without any resting equipment e.g. tripod. If mastered correctly this could be very effective as it offers great precision of angles because the camera is handheld, therefore it can be positioned in any way. Handheld is best when you are shooting someone or something that is moving. However, It looks very bad when shooting landscapes, buildings, or stationary objects.
- Push in / Pull back – here the camera is pushed towards the action or pulled back (whether manually or digitally) often to subtly suggest an increasing affinity or dislike for a character as a clip or scene progresses
- Zoom in or Zoom out – here the camera lens zooms in or out to change our spatial and emotional relationship to the scene and the characters
In addition, each camera movement and the speed of the movement has it's own unique and specific emotion or feeling that the audience or viewer picks up subconsciously. Therefore, using cinematography we can connect certain characters and objects with the audience by evoking specific feeling without any dialogue which, in my opinion,creates a magnificent title sequence that does it's job of introducing the movie to the audience without giving away too much detail or information.Lastly, we can use camera movement while filming to our advantage to create specific emotions and forming a hierarchy of the importance of every occurrence of every scene and making our title sequence more compelling as a whole.
According to the clips, often the terms 'Zoom in' and 'Push in' are confused with each other. A 'zoom' is a two dimensional magnification that increases the size of the center of the camera's image. Meanwhile, a 'push in' is physically pushing the camera towards the subject, creating a much more three dimensional space for the viewer. A 'push in' gives the viewer a more detailed and familiarized perspective of the character and the surroundings where as a 'zoom in' is more artificial and offers a more of an 'outsider's' perspective.
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