CAMERA ANGLES
Effects of each shot
Long Shot: Shows the full object alongside the setting and background
Extreme Long Shot: Shows the subject from a more extreme range, will give emphasis more to the setting of the whole movie.
Medium Shot: Allows the audience to see the characters body language, facial expressions and reactions.
Cowboy Shot: Cowboy shots create an effect that makes the character look cool and dominant.
Close Up: Enables the audience to focus on expressions and dialogues.
Extreme Close Up: Enables audience to feel real time emotion of the character
POV: To place the audience in the characters' shoes.
Over the Shoulder: It creates a new point of view that creates a spatial and connectional perspective of the audience and the character
High Angle: Makes subject look weaker and smaller.
Low Angle: Makes the subject look stronger and dominant.
Dutch Angle: Emphasizes confusion and disorientation due to the inconvenient angle.
Establishing shot: Introduces audience to setting of the movie.
CAMERA MOVEMENT
These are some videos that helped us understand the aspects of filming
Ultimate Guide to Camera Angles: Every Camera Shot Explained [Shot List, Ep. 3]
Ultimate Guide to Camera Movement — Every Camera Movement Technique Explained [The Shot List Ep6]
Mis En Scene
Here is a video that helped us understand mis en scene
What is Mise en Scene — How Directors Like Kubrick Master the Elements of Visual Storytelling
Other than camera angles and camera movements, there are other key elements to creating a suspenseful and meaningful scene. This includes the 3 types of songs diegetic, non-diegetic and trans-diegetic.
Diegetic: Sound that the characters within the media text can hear. This adds a sense of realism and could reveal some information about the character inside the media and soon to the audience.
Non-diegetic: This type of sound can only be heard by the audience instead of the characters. This is used to enhance the meaning of the audience to decode and create an emotional response in the audience.
Trans-diegetic: Trans-diegetic is the type of sound that transitions from one to another, for example from a diegetic sound turning into a non-diegetic sound. A trans-diegetic sound usually helps reflect the character's inner state for example it may start with a diegetic sound at first to connect with the character’s feelings and soon be heard by the character which is revealed as the character’s internal feeling/experience.
We were also given a video by our teacher in case we wanted to dive deeper into the topic which helped me a lot. As the upcoming projects which were a documentary and a music video needed these skills.
( Insert this video to your blogs https://youtu.be/2vlwm4VyyTc )
After some more lessons, we learned that there were 3 types of non-diegetic sound.
These are some examples of all three types of non-diegetic sound.
Melodic:
Niscaya - Bilal Indrajaya
Discordant:
Alien Scene
Contrapuntal:
Reservoir dogs
The fourth key element is the edit. The edit in a media text is crucial as it sets the tone and message and can deliver more impact to the audience.
There are 2 types of editing which are long takes, and short takes each one having a uniqueness and drawbacks of its own.
A long take is used to :
Build suspense
Makes it feel slow for the audience.
Extend the feelings of the scene
Makes it more immersive
While a short take is used to:
Increase the pace of the scenes
Makes it more exciting and high-energy
Mostly used to show actions
Focuses more on the details
These 2 videos helped me discover more things about the deeper understanding of editing in the media world.
https://youtu.be/h9AEYFYPYTM?si=Ld4P7wqL-rwagdbY (Deeper understanding of long takes)
https://youtu.be/OAH0MoAv2CI?si=ebTKXYxE-ilEa82l (Focuses more on the cuts and transitions)
Not only the duration of each scenes but editing can be classified as another 2 which are continuity editing and non-continuity editing.
Examples:
Continuity:
Straight cuts
Eyeline match
Shot/reverse shot
Cutaway/insert
Match cut
This video helped us understand the deeper level of continuity editing https://youtu.be/33eWqDZ6sRc?si=a_D1Bdcd5sJTM3yZ
Non-continuity:
Cross cut
Flash back
Flash forward
Jump cut
Match cut.
This is the youtube video I found that helped us learn the understanding of a discontinuity editing https://youtu.be/-d6Dp04NV0E?si=dqxmiMNjRene02DE
Making this classwork was a throwback for me to how i learned these things. We split the work between the both of us me and Bagus. We did this blog post to show how we learned all of these things and how much effect it has after a year in media studies. These are the 4 key elements to media which were the camera angles/movements, edit, mis-en-scene and sound. We didn't make this post right after we learned about the theories and elements which makes the notes less detailed. We can improve this for the future and take notes of the important things we will be learning such as more theories, key terms, to be able to help us for studying for the upcoming exams.
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