This document discusses different camera shots and angles and their effect on audience involvement and reaction. It explains that shots like point of view shots, reaction shots, and shot reverse shots aim to position the audience as a third party in the scene to make them feel more involved in the story. The lesson tasks students to analyze film clips, identify the shot types used, and discuss how the shots aim to achieve audience positioning effects.

1. Combining Shot-type and
Audience reaction
Lesson Objective: To understand how
different shots cause audience
involvement and reaction

2. Lesson Objective
•At the end of this lesson
we will have analysed
camera shots/angles
and the effect they have
on the audience.

3. Types of Shots Starter

4. Nothing is ever in the scene ‘by
accident’
Denotation:
The objects/items that are in the picture
Connotation
What the objects and items suggest
The person/institution who made the media will
already have an idea about what suggestions they
want to make.

5. Task
Create a list with the denotations and connotations of this image.
Once you’ve completed your list, write a paragraph explaining the
meaning behind the image.

6. Audience positioning
• Audiences enjoy texts when they feel involved
in them.
• We will learn to analyse the techniques used
to ‘sew’ the audience into the text.
– Narrative (the story)
– Development ( how the story is told)

7. Point of View shots
• Adopts the position
of the character –
over the shoulder or
‘in their eyes’
• Audience feels they
are experiencing
things as well.

8. Reaction Shots
• Extreme close-up of face to show reaction to
something.

9. Insert shots
• Gives the audience extra information that one
or more characters may not know yet. The
audience is aware of what is happening when
some characters do not.

10. Shot reverse shot
• Camera alternates
between 2 characters.
• Usually as part of a
conversation.
• Audience feels like 3rd
person in the shot.

11. Task
• We will watch a series of different film clips.
• Consider the shot types used
• Consider the audience positioning
techniques used
• Comment on why you think the director
chose each shot type. What was the desired
effect? Do you feel this effect was achieved?

12. Clips

13. Task - Homework
• Watch the final battle
of the Lion King.
• Record the information
as before in note form
in your book.
• Write a brief analysis of
the scene, making
reference to the shot
types and audience
positioning techniques
used, commenting on
why they were used
and if they were
effective.