I was put into a group of 4 which consisted of 2 boys, and 2 girls. We were given a clip of a film opening to watch on youtube. The opening my group had to watch was called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'. At first watched it with the sound on to get farmiliar with the clip. But them we watched it about another 4 times in mute. This was so that all of our focus was on the shots and the reasons behind each shot shown. The task was to create a story board of the 6 most important shots shown in the opening sequence and thouroughly evaluate them. We distinguished the different type of shot by studying them before we attempted the task. The following are the different kind of camera shots I learned about;
Long shot- shows the whole character..
Medium- shows the subject from waist up..
Close up- shows the subjects head and shoulders..
Aerial- birds eye view shot..
Low/High angle- a shot taken from below or above the subject..
Pan- when the camera moves horizontally..
POV- shot ideally showing the action from the characters point of view..
Zoom- when the length of the focused subject changes..
Subjective shot- intended to match exactly what the character is seeing, tends to be done with a 'binocular mask'..
Whip pan- a faster verison of 'pan shot' but used to show that the camera is just cathing up with all the action.
