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Mastering Cinematography in Narrative Storytelling: Oscar Tips on Visual Sentences

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    • 1.

      TRAILER

      2:17

    • 2.

      How The camera Talks

      3:16

    • 3.

      Visual Language

      3:55

    • 4.

      Internal Feelings Camera Movement 1

      2:56

    • 5.

      Internal Feelings Camera Movement 2

      5:31

    • 6.

      Internal Feelings Camera Movement 3

      3:45

    • 7.

      Internal Feelings Camera Movement 4 Arc

      3:46

    • 8.

      Internal Feelings Camera Movement 5 Arc

      6:14

    • 9.

      Introducing Character

      4:33

    • 10.

      Prompting Function

      3:22

    • 11.

      Changes in situation

      3:04

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Cinematography is more than just pointing a camera and capturing images. The Cinematographer's art is visual storytelling.

Thinking as a cinematographer gives you the ability to use the equipment it takes to achieve the visual narration the scenes require. 

A carefully-chosen camera movements and angles can heighten dramatic visualization of the story. A carelessly picked camera shots may distract or confuse the audience by depicting the scene so that its meaning is difficult to comprehend.

In film, certain camera movements will give us certain feelings; some good, some bad, some in between. But what you don’t want to do is give the wrong idea or emotion to the audience when that isn’t needed. Or to not give that very emotion whenever it’s much needed. In this course, you’re going to learn the Hollywood ways of using camera movements to tell visual story in a way that portray the exact emotion you want the viewers to experience.

My name is Isaac Albert, welcome to my course. With years of insiders’ cinematography knowledge, I am confident that this course will get you equipped with the narrative filmmaking techniques you need to be a successful filmmaker.

In this course you will upgrade your narrative cinematography skills by learning how to deploy camera movements to tell visual story like a pro.

This course is created for beginner and intermediate cinematographers who want to take their camera storytelling skills to the top level.

 

In this course, you will to learn about:

  • Language of Camera,
  • How to make camera talk,
  • Visual Sentence,
  • Combining Shots for Visual Narrative
  • Meaning behind the use of each camera shots  
  • Visual Storytelling techniques,
  • Internally generated camera movements,
  • Using camera to create suspense

 

In order to get the most from this course, you will need to know the fundamentals of Filmmaking. The knowledge of camera sixes

By the end of this course, you will be able to deploy the narrative camera movements techniques into your scene in order to make the viewers experience your story.

Are you ready to learn the language of the screen? Let’s get started!

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1. TRAILER: Tomato graphy is more than just pointing a camera and capturing images. The cinematographers art is visual storytelling, thinking as it's a motto, grapher gives you the ability to use the equipment it takes to achieve the visual narration. The scenes require a carefully chosen camera movements and angles can heighten dramatic visualization of the story. It carelessly picked camera shot may distract or confuse the audience by depicting the scene so that it's Mini, is difficult to comprehend. In firms today, camera movement will give us starting filling in some good, some bad. But what you don't want to do is give the wrong idea or an emotion to the audience when that isn't needed or to not give that very emotion whenever it's much needed. In this course, you are going to learn the Hollywood ways of using camera movement to tell a visual story in a way that portrayed the exact emotion you want the viewer to experience. My name is Issachar, but welcome to my course. With tiers of insiders. I am confident that these costs, we get to grips with the narrative film-making techniques you need to be a successful filmmaker. In this course, you upgrade your narrative cinema photography skills by learning how to deploy camera movements to tell a story like a pro. This course is great for beginners and intermediate photographers who want to take their communist storytelling skills to the next level. In this course, you'll learn about language of camera, how to make camera Talk. Visual sentence combining is short for visual narrative. Mini behind the use of each camera shot, visual storytelling techniques, internally generated camera up, using camera to create suspense. So hot, in order to get the most of this course, you will need to know the fundamentals of females and the knowledge of camera sides. By the hand of this course, you will be able to deploy that narrative camera movement that next into your scene in order to make the viewer's experience your story. The class projects, we include creating a scene with the intentional use of visual storytelling techniques led to discuss, Are you ready to learn the language of the screen? Let's get started. 2. How The camera Talks : You might not notice if you move the camera out towards you communicate something to your audience and heavy movement and Hangzhou of your camera or communicate something to your audience. So we have to determine exactly how to take advantage of data. Use every single moment and every single movement to deliver the right emotion. Many things make a good movie, a great story, brilliant, attain fantastic lighting and so hot. But wanting many people forget to pay attention to, especially those new to filmmaking is coming up. Movement in particular are coming up. On the hand goes. Audience feel, you can change the fleas, obviously, just by changing the angle or the way it moves. That it's always internal psychology of the character in the movie that the actin of the toes isn't enough to convey when a certain camera movement angle is adopted to accompany the character's expression. This is when the camera is visually making this statement. One of the ways they cannot talk is by expressing the internal fill-in are taught of the character. Sometimes they come out. Movement does not have anything to do with what the character is feeling or thinking. It's just doing its job. Given us clues about what's about to happen in the scene or what's happening in this scene. E.g. is seeing where a character is seen taking a walk into his house. And there is a point of view from inside a car focusing on the character from We give us the impression that someone is watching the character, even though we are not seeing the person spying. An MCU tracking shot of a character from these back makes the viewers feel like someone is talking to him. As he suddenly stores. Chaplin looked back and finds, no, this is the way the camera makes you as brands the story as if you are in the story world. Seen everyone's extra. This makes the viewer feel like they are Aussie. All knowing God that are enormous emotions coming up movement and non groups can generate within a story still will only learn about a few of them and how they work so that you can understand how to invent your own and use them to create any form of visual storytelling. Seen it requires some functions of camera shots in Division item number one, introducing and distribution. Number two, as pressing the character's internal feelings toward our emotional state. Number three points in the viewer's attention to something character, Hi class isn't aware of number four happening the characters to cities they could have said in dialogue. Number five, establishing connections. Number six, number seven. Number seven, we're using the camera to show us how something is perceived. Number eight, changes in situation and differences in atmosphere. In light of that, the subsequent lessons we'll be all about a critical breakdown of how professionals achieve these visual analytic techniques in that movies. So see you in the next lesson. 3. Visual Language : Mcu of a man was four rings and he answers the core. See on him as the colors is something that caught his attention and drops the core shuts. One camera slowly pushes in on his face as he removes the form from his hair shafts to its low pushing on the phone as the character looks at it after the core implied towards something terrible has happened or something shocking. As helpful, it could be a shocking good or bad news. The two push in camera movement short make us experienced the scene with the character as if we are the ones involved. Suspense is heightened as it is emphasized by this low pushing shot. This camera movement help us achieve two things. Great suspense and capture the viewer's attention to experience the moment with the character. The POV shot of the man on the phone also amplifies the Phillies of the man on the screen. This POV is always invincible because it shows us what a character in the story fuels from what they see. Even without knowing the context of this short, we can begin to piece together a certain logic and emotion from the characters per session. In the above scenario, the absence of dialogue makes the scene more dramatic, usually logical. Indexing how they come up with a company. The character's action to point out is internal state is regarded as visual centers. The slope pushing POV MCU plus c You shot used internally for visual sentence compensation to convey meaning. Let's do a further breakdown. The MCU, short medium close-up shots, or MCU, is a short dataframes disorder from just above the edge down to about midway on their torso. The idea of a medium close-up shot is that you can still easily register the actors, emotions, facial expressions, while retaining some background information. The MCU shots, apples to see demand in full action and be able to absorb everything is hoped to see your shot. When you want to review a subject, emotions and reactions, the close-up camera shots views the frame with a part of your subject. If your subject is a process and it's often face of all the different types of camera shot sizes in frame. A close-up is perfect for important moment for a character. It blows up shot size is near enough to register tiny emotions but not so close that we lose visibility In does seem to see you was used to reveal the characteristic reaction to what he hears and how is processing it internally, which is this colored shirts. Let the orders get close to the character to see facial gestures in details. Pushing it, pushing, move the camera closer to a subject. Simple, but typically with a totally camera movements of steady car pushes can draw the audience's attention toward a specific. They make us also pushing toward characters to try and infer what is occurring. Internet, this can be a reaction, thought process or internal conflict in that scene. It pushing on the character space F source to express demand stocks versus the POV shot. The POV, or point of view shot is a sequence that is short. I see the view as we're looking through the eyes of a specific character. This kind of short expressed with this low pushing shot amplifies the character's point of view. Making a wide range of statement about what might be going through the character's head. 4. Internal Feelings Camera Movement 1: The way the industry professionals engaged camera in visual narrative is the use of visual sentences by expressing the character's internal feelings, thoughts, or emotional state. Welcome to this lesson, where we'll explore a deeper breakdown of visual narrative that thinks in cinematographic, yeah, you will learn, are the professionals use the camera creatively to convey the character's internal feelings or emotional state. Sometimes the camera movements are used to convey the character state of mind, internal feelings and thoughts, process internal conflict, or express the character's emotional state in the scene. Sometimes each slice of lines in dialogue requires a particular camera movement to accompany them to stress the intended emotion in this scene. Also sometimes character's actions and reactions in the scene require a unique camera movement or angle to accompany them to stress the intended emotion in the scene. Many things can happen in the scene. And the camera is there to help the character's balance the expressions of their emotions in several ways. Therefore, it is then left to the cinematographer to know the aircraft. Coming out movements can help, or snow was in the character's mind. This is the creative use of the camera to convey what is going on in the character's head. There are different ways professionals achieve this, but to get a sense of how it works, Let's take the following instances, amongst other camera shots, professional cinematographers used to portray the internationalists of a character indices. Pushing, pulling away orbits, parallax or arc, combo, short, pushing, pushing, shot. As the camera pushes, it helps bring the audience to realize the importance of the moment or an object being pushed in on. It. Also add cinematic spice to the story as it helps in building tension and amplifies the audience's attention. It pushing shot is an emphatic shot. The shot can be a visual cue to the audience that this is important or listen carefully as a character test emotional story of how he lost. These only go to cancer. Very slow push in short on the character's face as he tells the story. You can push in on external details such as an object and so forth. In doing so, filmmakers can direct our attention towards specific detail or capture a character's thoughts, process, it's an effective way to communicate internal conflicts. In the next lesson, we will dig a little deeper into the pushing camera shots technique and land out there and get in real movies to convey emotional statement on the screen. See you there. 5. Internal Feelings Camera Movement 2: It pushing shots can be sub two are very quick. It's going to give you a very strong emotion and huge tension in this scene. They're pushing shots can be used for many different theories. The following emotions and visual statement amongst many others, are therefore, what if pushing camera shot can be used for? The pushing shot can be used when a character is thinking of what to do. It can be used when a character is taken in an emotion such as a shock, surprise, and so hot, it can be used to when a character is realizing something or remembering something. It can be used to express the importance of a moment. Boosting shots can also be used when a character is making a decision. It's can be used when a character is processing something deep in thought. It can be used to establish connections between characters are characters, and objects. It can be used when a character is thinking of what to do. In a scene where a teenage character just put to bed and can't afford the responsibility. The only way she can help the baby is to give away. But it's a hard decision for her. She stares at it, creep, stream done eyes as the camera pushes in on our face and intercourse loop bush in the baby, in the crib to. This portrays a deep psychological situation of the character as she conflicted with the truth within that, if she truly want the best for the baby, she has to let go of power for a postdoc, the only way to give the baby the best life she deserves. This is a wavy make us express conflict of the character. Taking in an emotion such as shock, surprise, and server, where a guy pops out a ring. Hi, girlfriend, American, this constantly girlfriend as a shock hazard coming up on our face and Latinos, they come up on the guy's face. Keeping the ring of time as to go for is this great shot. The camera shot in that situation amplified it tense moment as it helps us to feel the shock and the characters thought processes. Remembering something, e.g. in a same way, characters into a can't sue at the grocery store. She freezes as the camera slowly pushes in on our frozen phase and the objects on the shelf. This may be triggering of memory in the character's head. She remembers, oh, this is sound loved that so much. Why e was alive. The camera movement in thus it functions as a memory prompted to the character has its pushes in on the cans and simultaneously and the characters posing as pressure. I decide this craft to weigh the profession as metagraph hotels in fuchsia, narrative. Storytelling, realizing some pushing shots can also help to spread the Internet baleen of the character, when attention is prompted to something coming up on his face, will make the audience feel like the character is realizing something, as he notices is pod objects but something like sample and just seeing where the cops are, such in the house by piece of evidence after tearing everywhere. Part One of them is a war and its attention is elevated as the Communist slowly pushes in on him and walk without a single line of dialogue was going on in these visually. Internally they cannot tells us that the character is paying close attention to the wall. All that he has just realized something more, something called attention of the world realizes something. Here's another scenario for the realisation, isn't where a character walks into a room. Lysis that is, prisoner has got the camera pushes in on the character's face and loose rule. Without a single line of dialogue, it is visually clear that someone or something escaped from that establishing connection. A pushing shot can also add in establishing the connection between characters and others are an object or a problem. Combining camera movement and angles can help us achieve these shots like this. E.g. in a board meeting where there's a CU plus locomotion intercourse between two characters. We know the two collectors API connection you have met before proudly something is going on between them. A scene where a character suddenly runs into picture. Why do we asked him before he picks it up? They come up with using slowly on the picture and the character. This tells us that there is a connection between the character and the memory of the past. May also be a painful one, or it could be edited. For instance, it could be an amputated. So who sees is both picture when its legs as to complete it, and also be a picture of a deceased loved one. It could even be an object from his childhood that triggers a memory of the past, prompt him to remember. So let's continue in the next lesson. 6. Internal Feelings Camera Movement 3: In the previous lesson, we've been up to pushing camera movement. It's mini purples and functions in the heart of visual narrative storytelling. This lesson, we'll look at its opposite. Pull away or pull out, come around. Every commercial it's, your theme is saying something to the Odyssey intentionally or unintentionally. And of course, you don't want to pick up the camera and start to blast everything where it's cops. That's why I've created this course preparing you for the challenges there. I'm equipping you with the essential skills you need in order to get your shortlist ready to go for the professional visual narrative storytelling. So let's get started. The opposite of the push and camera movement is pulled out. Unlike pushing and pulling the camera with the emphasizes, the subject, it is sort of signal to disconnect from the characters. It can unveil the content of the scene, setting or each character by pulling away to reveal more of the scene. As subject grows smaller, it pullout can detach from the scene or the entire film. The same movement can also emphasize negative emotions like AI solution or abandonment. The following amongst orders or the meaning behind the use of the pool out. Short. Short creates a sense of disconnect from the characters. They pull out shot makes the characters feel overwhelmed by the world around them. It amplifies the character sadness and loneliness can also present characters at their most vulnerable. It can be used to present the hint of the movie. Pull out can also be used to present a scene from a closer view to the extreme log view. For instance, in a scene where a character receives a phone call as he finds out that his parents just died, communist slowly pulls away from this MCU shot as he realizes that he asked nobody. Now, the room is getting bigger and it feels like everything is closing in around pass most object. Pushing shot can show the signs of disconnect that are subject is more insignificant, a puny, and that the world is closing in around them. A lot of the time, it is used to show character sadness or that something major just happened in their lives, that they are having a hard time wrapping their minds around. So in a scene where a gang of bullies attack a character, beating heart to the grant MCU on him, line a place on the ground as the camera moves slowly away from him. It's could be from the overhead shot. Let's cut off from his face on the grant, away from Him horizontally. Camera movement away from the subject halite is helplessness. And rather than pushing in to help us empathize with, the camera pulls away, abandoning discernment. Also, in a scene where a character dies in the hospital bed, the camera slowly pulls away. In that scene, the camera movement intense. It testifies the moment as it expresses the sense of gradually disconnecting from the character. They pull away shot present a scene from closer to full or extreme, long view. Mostly in the opening movies same. They come out sometimes start the same from a closer view of an object to eat food view, creating the scenes, establishing shots sometimes at the hand of this movie, the camera moves farther away from the point of resolution until it fade to black. 7. Internal Feelings Camera Movement 4 Arc: Pack hub, It's parallax. This type of shots easily as it tracks, set up a Foucault points and the camera is rotated around in an hock to view it from several angles. This type of shorts easily as it tracks setup around a focal point and the camera is rotated around in ad-hoc too few eat from several angles. It is a camera movements that are built around the subject. This is typically a horizontal hack. This RB chart is the idea where the camera moves. That is the way to degrees around the subject and the subject in place. A common way to use this camera technique in film-making is to put an auto or a subject in the center with the camera moving. I don't want it to degree or 360 degree around. The shot keeps our focus centralized on the subject for a moment of intimacy. It's add dynamic movement when the character may be standing completely still, completing a full circle with a subject at the center. This form of camera shot can unify a group of characters as a single unit. Again, surrounded traits. In the untouchable, the saccular tracking shot symbolizes that default. Crime fighters, individuals from diverse backgrounds. I've finally become a team. The cameras around them, you'll find them in space. The camera movements can be expressed in short of food for the short form is called semi arc, which can be achieved as a half circle, a way to decrease of camera movement on the character's face. Why the flu shot can be referred to as steady state degrees of camera movement by making a full circle glide of the camera around the character or characters at the center of the frame. The actual can communicate to us that the conversation between character is getting tensed or when the conversation becomes tense, the camera a bit around the characters. The camera August shot is always effective where the characters involved in the conversation started position. It could also be used for a person trying to get a color section or the hue to coordinate 11 for help. How among others, the following are the emotions the arc camera movements can communicate to us. Our camera movements can be used to communicate that a character is panic. The camera movements can present a character in the act of heroism. The actual camera movement can also communicate to host that character is feeling lost. Shots can also have intensifying the moment when a character is puzzled or processes taught very fast internet. It can also communicate to us that a character is necessity in his environment and taking in some information to present a character as a custodian or an authority. Act movement can be pulled off creatively in different ways to achieve different kinds of effects. Really see, for instance, when combined with other camera angles and shots, it root out some eating emotions in this scene. E.g. at shots can be combined with cameras shots and handles for a specific result. Axons can be combined with CU MS. Bu Gou I R group pushing and other shots to create different kinds of visual emotions. In the next lesson, we will dig deeper and learn a full breakdown of how the hock shots works in a different city. See you there. 8. Internal Feelings Camera Movement 5 Arc: Welcome to this lesson presents a full breakdown of different meanings behind the use of actual innocence. Let get started. They are coming up. Movements can be used to communicate that a character is padding in a silhouette, an evil spirit, someone, a character, she follows it, voice calling out into getting into a spot. She can hear the voice becoming stronger as it stands still trying to figure out where the bus is coming. Become a bit around to convey the sense of panic and anxiety or to search for something without the actual indices. You can imagine how much detail will be left out and outlined. That's the power of actions in action, right there. Here's another example. The main can present a character in the act of heroism, e.g. where a character sounds face-to-face with the most accurate or is probably it's good. Also be seen where a cop pulls out of the car and the gamma a bit around him. See you? Notice that the low angle shot helps us to express the character as a powerful person and when accompanied by the actual, intensifies the moment. Present the character at the center of the frame as the person who asked to solve the problem at the moment, the camera movements can also communicate to us that a character is lost, e.g. and lead to go, whew got lost in the woods. Christ for a mommy, become a bit around her as she stands to you on the spot, looking clueless, the camera shot around the little girl in that scene amplifies our psychological state at the moment. Making the audience experience emotion which are the carbonyl shot makes us feel the sense of being lost and clueless with us. It's a bit in a full semicircle. She calls out for the shot can ebb in intensifying the moment when a character is puzzled or processing some thought very fast Internet. In a scene where a character gets to his village and suddenly finds everyone there's product on the ground. The camera a bit around is see you face at a full circle and expands to a wide angle shot during the character in the middle of the dead bodies, when a high angle or overhead shot of the scene is added, IT is the emotion making us feel sorry for the victim and witness. The full details of the environment. I and low angle shot are often paired in the same scene to heighten the imbalance of power between subjects. In a scene where a character is looking up to the sky, interacting, which is why natural. I've been hungry is sweet table to present a mile below the beam. Why the ankle? From the character's point of view, we show us the superiority of the supernatural I've been over. I demand a high angle is typically used to diminish a character making a week or whatever group when a high angle approaches 90 degrees above the sockets is becomes the over head shots and overhead shot is also known as a pet eye's view of God's eyes, which finds the camera directly above the subject shooting straight down. One of its uses is to capture the horrific detail of a crime scene. It's gone also communicate to us that a character is assessing environment and take it in some inflammation in a certain way. Character gets to the place where it's Chad. Abductors instructed him to meet them with their arms up in exchange for his little girl assistance to assessing the environment and trying to figure out where the abductors mean likely come up from the camera or Beta around him, amplifying the sense of anxiety and tension buildup at the moment. The movement can be pulled off creatively in a different way to achieve different kinds of effects of filling in. For instance, when combined with other camera angles and shot it throughtout. So eating emotions in. Another form of arc is expressed by starting to see your camera movement shot from the back of the character, starts to review the character's face in C, you. This one is especially used to introduce a character as he assesses its environment. It's usually used to introduce someone with strong status in this scene. Also, another one is the combination of pushing on semicircle shot on the character's face. This communicates a positive state and thinking fast to come up with a solution. The actual art can also be a combination of an act, low angle pushing shot from MCU to see you showed this is the one, there's the one that's usually used. Press a character's arrow is, I go over it. Our best shot can oppose, convey a sense of cluelessness, hopelessness, lot vulnerable in the visual narrative. In the LAS, in about a little girl who got lost in the woods column for mommy. This kind of combination is the best camera at night if choice to achieve the maximum emotion for the moment of this scene. The ion good shot, being a vulnerability shot combined with an arrow shot, implies a sense of intensified mixed emotions for the character and the audience as they experience the moment which the character achieve, the one in that situation. These kinds of hacks or creatively deployed to communicate different feelings and emotions on the screen. Use desperately not for users, say can you recreate the best artist? Cinematography works like a pro. Makes sure you study, you're seeing very well. Before you start blasting the gears for this scene. Know what camera shot at best used to convey the intended emotion of the scene. And with that said, Good luck. 9. Introducing Character: In a movie scene, the camera can be moved or hungered in such a way that tells us something about the character. So welcome. In this lesson, you are going to learn about one of the ways theme professionals use cameras to communicate meaning. We will explore further about how the camera is critically deployed in order to graph, to visualize sentence, There's a certain camera movement the professional filmmakers use creatively when they want to especially introduce a particular character. Also, there are creative ways they use the camera to distinguish characters. E.g. here is what we see on the screen when a camera moves in such a way that makes us feel like it's trying to make us pay special attention to a character in a scene where a villus light out of his truck as they are fitted to grant, the camera picks a CU from heat two top to review the subject in the MCU shot from a low camera angle shot. This way we feel like a powerful person. Alright? In that scene, the camera is deployed to introduce the character and distinguish DC you fit shot of the villain, create a quick suspense. The two top shot from his feet to his face plus the MCU shirt in a low angle shot introduces the character. The low angle shot distinguishes and gives the character in the scene a sense of strong power. It communicates to the screen our powerful or dangerous deposit we just arrived is the MCU shot gives us the opportunity to see the character's appearance from a close perspective. Here is another scenario where a character walks in from the camera, blow into focus, or a scene where a character walks in from the shadow. This scene introduces a character and distinguishes him as someone we don't expect to see innocent. It's great. So space also seen where a character walks in from the shadow, gives us the impression of a shady character. A scene where a group of people is gathered looking for a volunteer amongst them to embark on a dangerous task. No response. Everywhere is quiet as somebody walks in from outside with the line out to the camera pans fast purchasing on him to review in the crowd steps aside for him, the theory of the low angle shot you use. Camera angles are hall about, are we meant to receive a character that had yet another layer of meaning to every other camera shot. And it showed that finds itself below a subjects highlight. Looking up at a low angle shot. Low angle shot are typically used to make his subjects look more powerful, puffer it for heroes and villains alike, the degree can be solved to a strip low angles at not confined to human subjects law, but the effect is disable it and rotate the camera horizontally, left or right, while remaining in a freak in a fixed location. Patterns can be used to follow a character's actions, or it'd be used to review information. It's low-power views at spatial. Why a rapid pan items, the energy of the shot. These are known as Bonnie, is ideal for horizontal movement, but what about the vertical axis? Tilt it to direct the camera upward or downward. Filmmakers use tools to capture the verticality of the famous world. This can be used to give a character dominance of vulnerability. It gives dominance to a character when it's tilted up and stops at a low angle or the character or an object. It gives vulnerability when it tilts down on a character from the top. In a later lesson, we'll learn this further in high angle shot that make similar to a pan, tilt can review information like a character, certain scale switching attention from upward or downward. Does it for this lesson. In the next one, we'll learn further about our professionals. Use the camera to craft a visual and narrative. See you there. 10. Prompting Function: Okay, another way the industry professionals use visual sentence is by pointing the viewer's attention to something characters aren't aware of. Prompt us to pay close attention to something in this scene. As in the example of a scene where a character is in taking a walk into his house. And there is a point of view from a car focusing on the character from a file that gives us the impression that someone is watching the character, even though we're not seeing the person spy or an MCU tracking shot of a character from his back, that gives us a clue that the character is being followed About three. Another way the industry professionals use visual centers is by having the characters to say things they could have said in dialogue. You've heard of short naught and its importance in the field. That's where these aspects of the visual sentence comes into play. Hitchcock often said that cinema is a universal language because every culture in the world can understand it. You said that with any of these themes, you should be able to turn the sand hope still clearly make sense of the story. The viewer's own native language, superseded by purely visual concept expressed on the screen by constructing sequences of shots that work together, you can spell out specific ideas, just like words on the page combined to form sentences. You can put together our camera shots that convey in logical narrative without a single line of dialogue. E.g. in a scene where a character as a gun in his hand and as it fixes, is highest on the door. The door knob twitches. It's low pushing on the character's face and the door knob is telling us that the character is anticipated for whatever is about to come through that door. You know, something is about to happen because the cameras is that say you don't need a dialogue to tell you what's going on. Another way the industry professionals use visual sentences is by telling stories. This tells the situation of things in this scene. It's passed every year. They're collecting enough information and visual cues of what is going on or why what is going on in this scene is that way. Another way the industry professionals use visual sentences is by using the camera to show us. Awesome thing is passive character or need to meet a camera movements tracking fast face-to-face as its tracks pass him while it runs makes us feel or perceive the intensity of the character speed towards or away from something. Somebody walking in the desert as the camera tracks from these back to its front arm stops at VCU. Well, he bought pointing up is compasses. This gives us the perception of an adventurer on a quest, the list goes on. The camera can be manipulated in unlimited ways to make the Audience View involved in the story. In the subsequent lessons, we'll learn an in-depth the meaning behind using some camera angles and movements. See you there. 11. Changes in situation : Convinced difference in situation of changes in the atmosphere is seen where six soldiers are typically clearing a perimeter from ls, MCU and C u plus penny and tracking shot suddenly coming out short, change to random shaking and short. As enemies shots fires rapidly from nowhere while or the sodas take a swift cover, return fire. Unfortunately, they've just walked into a queue box situation. Or the sodas are suddenly rounded hub and the enemy in thousands close in on them and rain non-stop bullet onto them. Pushing Dutch angle shot is then engage as the sodas are k cubed inaction. In that scene, ls MCU see u plus penny and tracking camera shot AND gate in order to set the pace. But the outmost been a situation where the soldiers covertly in great anticipation of any direct MCU. See you shot on the captain as a son, a swift pan towards the direction of the sound. The camera I just saw a post to this man, then is shaky handheld camera shot to transit the cuvette situation into a high-energy atmosphere. The Southern camera shake to reflect the state of mind of each character as panic and defensive struggles and amplify these things. Chaotic situation as bullet flies from every direction in this scene, the camera shots make different statement about the situation of the atmosphere and the state of the character. When the shot is table, it feels like everything is okay. But when a camera shake shot is headed to the scene, it makes the audience view or like something isn't right? That's what happened in our scene as the stable shot convey, convey the change in situation or difference in atmosphere. The heart of underworld camera movement is often found in high intensity. I action movies. The rapid fires and handheld camera shots create a frantic, chaotic, and exciting field, almost as if you are the one taking part in the action. It makes diverse field intensity of the movement. As the sodas in the scene becomes intense and vulnerable. The Dutch angle shot is basically, and anytime you use slightly to the horizon of your camera frame, and it's usually used to convey uneasy emotion that something is not quite right. It tells us something is wrong or something bad is about to happen. It could be that, it could be internal conflict. And so its base color used to express a vulnerable situation of a character in the movie to create a sense of unease or to magnify tension.