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FINE CUT FILMS - PRODUCTION |
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How do you decide what lens to use? Experience will guide you, but if you apply the basic precept of 'do with the camera as you would with the eye' you won't go far wrong. Here are yet a couple of two shots; the one on the left is a close-up on a medium wide lens - the shot on the right is just the same, but using a narrow lens. Because the depth of field is reduced, the background becomes blurred and the concentration goes on the girl's emotion, not on the flowers behind her.
Don't just presume that the shot tells the story you want to tell. Look at it dispassionately if you can. I know it'll take two minutes to shift the camera and it's getting late, but have you got a shot like the one on the left?
The one on the right is essentially the same, a mid-shot of the presenter with the object, but it's far less cluttered (and a clock in shot can be dangerous).
And are you making good use of the shot? An empty shot of a landscape may be OK but it'll soon run out of interest.
Put a herd of cows in it or a couple
walking through holding hands and it'll come to life and last
much longer on screen. A little work like that can save you hours
of shooting and editing time as well as being much more pleasing.
Even a boring old chap with a briefcase can bring a shot to life
(as long as the commentary isn't all about child molesters!). That's quite enough for now about the pictures themselves - the visual words, if you like. What about the visual sentences? |
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