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Preliminary Exercise: Introduction to Camerawork Warm-Up Exercise 1

What is Camerawork? 

  Every good picture or film needs good camerawork. Camerawork adds to the story, and it allows the audience to engage in what is going on in the film. Camerawork is an art that combines cinematography, film making, and photography. Moreover, cinematography is the art of using light and camera to add storytelling to a motion picture. The person responsible for this job in film is known as the Director of Photography. Moreover, there are actors who are notable for adding to the camerawork. Leonardo DiCaprio is known for playing vigorously into his characters. Whether he is playing Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, or Jack from, the Titanic, he is seen as one of the greatest actors because of the factor he adds to film. Another actor is Keanu Reeves, who is notable for playing in movies such as The Matrix and John Wick.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Keanu Reeves

  Two main concepts that I was introduced in while I was learning about camerawork was shot sizes and camera angles. Shot sizes shows how much of the setting, or subject is displayed in a frame. In other words, it is the size of the shot. There are nine different shots. The shots are named full shots, master shots, wide shots, extreme medium shots, medium shots, medium full shots, medium close-up shots, close-up shots, and extreme close-ups. Moreover, camera angles are the angle or spot a particular subject was shot at. The camera different camera angles are low angle, eye level, aerial level, canted angle, cowboy level, knee level, and ground level. The thing I found most interesting was how many camera angles there were. Before I learned about this topic, I only knew about two or three of the angles mentioned. Angles like canted and ground were a bit new to me.

This is a picture of me and my team's worksheet on Camera Angles.

This is a picture of me and my team's worksheet on shot sizes.









  


  

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