Filmmakers Academy | Camera Emotion
Every single frame in a movie, commercial, or music video expresses some type of emotion. Whether it be sorrow, energy, or anger… Something within that frame is going to steer your audience in a specific emotional direction.
In this lesson, Shane Hurlbut, ASC discusses his work on “Waist Deep” and how important the camera’s movement was to each scene. By the time you finish this, you’ll understand the basic principles to feeding information and manipulating your audience through utilising camera emotion.
You will learn:
- The impact camera movement has on viewers’ emotions.
- How a camera can play into the emotion of a scene.
- How to orientate your audience, and how NOT to.
- Utilising camera and movement to provide story details without cutting.
- Understanding how lenses can affect audience perspective.
- How to manipulate what the audiences takes in.
- How to create a camera language for each character in your story.
- Creating movement that will work for the scene.
- Understanding your director’s vision and how to deliver that on screen.
- How to interpret scripts for the screen
- How to create interesting compositions to keep your audience in the story.
British Cinematographer subscribers can use the discount code BCINE for $25 off a Filmmakers Academy subscription.
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