1. Slow motion
In order to emphasis something to the audience, slow motion is
often used in films to demonstrate a range of things such as, to
represent a key moment in the film or to demonstrate a skill in sport.
It can also help to make the audience take it in for example, it can be
used to present flashbacks or flash forwards in order to persuade the
viewers into believing what they are watching is important.
In my group we could use this for our opening sequence, for instance
when the character mei plays comes up in front of Lizzy about to kill
her; this can be down almost in slow motion so you can see
everything, or done quickly so the viewers can’t notice, this builds an
effect as if it was happening in reality.
Panning & Tilting
This method of moving when filming is carried out by keeping the
camera stationary but rotating it either vertically (tilting) or
horizontally (panning). Usually, in a film panning will be used to
follow something moving in a film, or to show more than a single
shot. Also, tilting will be used in a film to emphasise the size of
something; this is often used when something in a scene cannot fit
within a single frame.
I and my group can use this method of movement when we are
filming the corridor scene to follow the character lizzy as she runs
away from the killer.
Zooming in and out
This movement technique is where the camera zooms in and out
from the subject without moving the camera; this is often used to
help the audience focus on something specific. For example, you can
use this method to show a location or put something in the bigger
2. picture; by filming from a long shot and then zooming into the
subject.
This method can be used in my opening sequence in order to put
focus on mei’s character to draw our audience into the fact that she
is the main part of our opening.
Dolly and tracking shots
In order to smoothly follow the attention a company would use a
small wheeled vehicle (dolly); it can zoom in and out of a scene as
well as helping to follow a subject. The movement of the camera is
parallel to axis on the lens of the camera, whilst tracking is where it is
perpendicular to the camera lens axis.
However, this is impossible for my group to use as we do not have a
dolly, although if we did we would of most likely used it to shoot
lizzy’s running scene as we could follow her at the same speed.