Using Camera Shots!

 

Here we are again! This time, we will be diving into Camera Shots and putting them to use! I'm actually enjoying learning about different camera shots. I have a lot of camera shots that I can put to use, so I may just make another camera shot blog to add onto this one. 

Camera shots, which employ angles, transitions, and cuts to further portray feelings, ideas, and action, are a crucial component of a film/magazine. It is essentially very important for film because of course as we know, film is made up of shots, and the choice of shot greatly affects how a viewer perceives the action on the screen. 

I will start off with 3 different camera shots that will be utilized in my Media Studies course. These 3 different camera shots that I'll be starting with first is Aerial Shot/Bird's Eye, Close Up Shot, and Wide Shot.

We're going to begin with some Aerial Shots/Bird's Eye View!

An Aerial shot is a shot that is taken from a higher vantage point than what is actually being framed in the shot. Viewers can more fully comprehend what is going on below thanks to aerial shots. It is also said that aerial shots are taken from helicopters and things relating to that nature. Of course I wouldn't be actually able to get a view from a helicopter, so I had to improvise. I got pretty lucky for the first picture though, that picture was actually taken from a plane that I was on and it gives more of a "Bird's Eye View", so I should say I improvised with the last 2 pictures. The last 2 pictures were taken from a high floor of a hotel's balcony, so I was at a higher vantage point looking down. In these 3 Aerial/Bird's Eye View shots that I took, you can see that they are all high shots capturing certain breathtaking views of Hawaii. 

Here, we have a Close Up Shot!

                                       

A Close Up Shot is a shot where the subject's face dominates the frame, yet the term can also be used to describe any shot that appears to have been taken up close and where an object looks to be rather massive and in depth. This Close Up Shot that I took captures her features and her emotions, as we can see the smirk on her face.

Last one for now, Wide-Shots!

                   

                   

                  

Wide-angle shots have a larger depth of field and a larger horizontal plane of motion. If we look at these scenery pictures, we can see that I took them as a horizontal plane, giving off a wider capture of the plane itself in the pictures.