This document discusses different camera shots and techniques and how they can be used to convey meaning and foreshadow elements of a film's plot, mood, and themes. It analyzes examples of close up shots showing a character's emotions, medium shots revealing a character's costume and setting the mood, long shots hinting at the plot and location, extreme long shots establishing the setting, high angle shots demonstrating the number of people in an area, panning shots indicating a historical event, and zoom shots highlighting a character's facial emotions. Overall, the document examines how micro elements in filming like camera shots provide subtle clues to foreshadow the overall emotion, themes and key details of an upcoming movie.

1. Micro Elements in Film
Openings
By Ryan.A.Henson

2. Close Up

3. This close up foreshadows the overall
emotion of the upcoming film, the
character looks deep in thought and he
clearly isn't happy with what he is either
thinking about or the scenes he is
seeing.

4. Medium Close Up

5. This medium close up is close enough
to show the emotion and passion in this
persons speech but the audience can
still see his hand movement and
costume, the audience can see from
his hand movement his emotion and
from his costume they can see he is a
high ranking official.

6. Medium Shot

7. This shot allows the audience to see the
character’s costume which is black,
provoking emotions of sadness and
mourning. This indicates to the audience
the mood of the film through the
character’s costume.

8. Long Shot

9. The long shot used here is to give the
audience some information about the
location but it mainly hints toward the plot
of the film, people are shown in what looks
to be a makeshift medical bay.

10. Extreme Long Shot

11. Extreme long shots give the audience a
hint into the setting of the film, this shot
hints that the setting here in this seen is a
harbour due to the boats and land
surrounding the waters.

12. High Angle Shot

13. This high angle shot was used to show the
audience the amount of people that are
piled onto a small boat. Indicating that
they are perhaps fleeing danger as they
would rather face the risk of the boat
sinking.

14. Panning Shot

15. This panning shot begins with a scene
showing a Cuban flag and ends showing
boats at a harbour, perhaps indicating to
the audience a significant historical event
in the film, involving these two scenes.

16. Zoom Shot

17. The zoom shot is used here to highlight the
emotions shown on the face of this
character as they are helped off the boat.
They clearly don’t look happy to be arriving
where they are, giving an insight into the
mood of the film.