Film School Notes

November 30, 2020

Focal length

https://youtu.be/Zu-VdAK2mOQ https://youtu.be/QzPLkxkpOnI

  • 24mm for wide shots
  • 35mm wide but can get closer
  • 50mm close up shots without distortion
  • 70 to 85 mm range close up and makes most faces look natural
  • 100mm > close up shots when you have to stay at a distance

Camera angels

https://youtu.be/SlNviMsi0K0

Wide

Wide angle lense and show off location Emotion: removed, loneliness, insignificance Lense: 24mm to 35mm

Long

Shows off location but a subject fills in the entire frame

Medium

Waist up help viewer focus on what the user is doing or saying. Emotion: Close

Cowboy

Is between long and medium. Mid thigh up. Used to show off fun on hip or detail around waist

Tight

Head and shoulders of subject. Used for dialog or detail facial expression Emotion: important or intense where you want the viewer to focus Lense: 50mm to 100mm

Detail(Extreme close up)

Used for emphas is or importance of image Emotion: mystery Lense: 50mm to 100mm

Low

Angle: Below the eye line, pointing upward Emotion: Make subject look larger in life or dominance

High

Angle: Above subject looking down Emotion: Weak, inferior, or smaller

Dutch

Angle: Slightly tilt horizon of the frame Emotion: uneasy, something is not quit right, something is wrong

Over the shoulder

Used two people talking to each other and camera is behind the shoulder of one of the two. Giving the perspective that are the one use subject is talking to.

POV

Takes on the perspective of the subject. Shot is from their perspective and includes their hands Lense: 24mm to 35mm

Cutaway

Is the interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else. Used for transition or side stories

180 Degree Rule

Is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene. By keeping the camera on one side of an imaginary axis between two characters, the first character is always frame right of the second character.

30 degree Rule

Cuts on shots should be atleast 30 degrees and ideally be two different camera angels

movement

https://youtu.be/IxbmyWHBel8

Lighting

fundamentals of lighting

white balance

split

3 point setup

color temperature

Sound

Capturing clean sound

Sound design

finding sound effects

finding music

File managment

https://mrpaulxavier.com/14-day-filmmaker

Slow mo

premiere pro keyframe


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