RTV-3531 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Birds Eye, Steadicam, Point-Of-View Shot
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Headroom - you don"t want to cut off someone"s head, don"t make it like they"re falling out of the shot. Always have a subject in mind for your shot. Wider shots are often used to establish location and subjects" relative positions in space. Closer shots are often used to emphasize particular aspects of the action or drama (i. e. a facial expression, an object of signi cance, a movement, a small part of a larger process). Framings generally tend to move from wide to close. When we are curious about something in life, we want to move closer to nd out more. All of these focus effects are related to depth of eld - range between foreground and background that is in focus. Smaller apertures = greater depth of eld (increasing the amount of light increases the depth of eld because you have to shut down the aperture to maintain a normal exposure).
