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These videos focus on stationary camera work and focus especially on shot selection, framing, managing the line for complex scenes, creating a library of ready-made camera-plots, psychology of character placement / movement, and maximizing the use of depth.
1. introduction
2. shot sizes and types
3. focal length
4. framing and perspective
5. staging upwards and downwards
6. managing the line
7. coverage
8. spatial continuity
9. open and closed framing
10. right-angle, outward and parallel cameras
11. letter shapes and camera plots: i
12. letter shapes and camera plots: a
13. letter shapes and camera plots: l
14. letter shapes and camera plots: u, ii, o
15. scattered characters
(about 80 minutes)
1. temporal continuity
2. expanding and contracting time
3. transforming cameras
4. covering stops
5. motivations for character movement
6. motivations for stopping
7. script staging: motivations for movement
8. intimacy, honesty and power
9. script staging: intimacy, honesty and power
10. managing the line: moving lines part i
11. managing the line: moving lines part ii
12. coordinating foreground and background
13. deep staging part i: static
14. deep staging part ii: shifting depth
15. depth of field in-depth
16. managing focus and rack focus
17. mirrors, hotspots and shadows
(about 113 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on July 11, 2005 in Film::Camerawork.
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Super-interesting. So many techniques!!
This video was fantastic. As a non-film schooled filmmaker, I had to back up and rewind many many times, its a huge amount of information with little wasted time. The diagrams are really clear and explained things that I'd been told in class and seen on the screen but only understood superficially - this made me excited to get back to creating and filming scenes. The only downside I found was voice over, I think they could have found someone better. I've rented the rest of the sets.
Overview for some, but even if you're a person who well versed in the basics of camera direction even the first disc might cause some small revelations. The "meat" of the series really starts on the third disc, but I highly encourage anyone looking at the series to get them all. I found viewing these in groups of two was ideal since they do play off of common and related ideas and techniques.
In addition, discs one and two are nice reference and learning material if you only have one camera and don't posses a dolly, crane, or steady cam and don't wish to move the camera by hand.
This series really is a "classroom" lecture in a sense. So expect to view them many times and take copious notes if any of it is new to you as they are packed with information.
The second disc in the series contains many helpful hints, tricks, and methods that go beyond just camera framing. Emphasis is placed on how to handle intensive dialog sequences between multiple actors. I found it very insightful for its great coverage of the the grand film topic of "the line" that is even poorly understood by those making many recent feature films.
Topics that are often only talked about for maybe a paragraph or a page in most books on film, such as OTS shots, are covered extensively in the series in good detail and variation.
The only problem I can see with this series is it makes it even more painful to watch movies with "bad" camera work!
Top notch tutorial on the basics of blocking. The use of graphically simulated actors is surprisingly effective. The writing is clear and concise, though the narrator reads it at an unecessarily rapid pace. The second disc is a little muddy here and there, but then, the dramatic configurations presented therein are quite sophisticated. All in all, a thorough, well-produced inventory of dramatic camera coverage.
This set of videos is the most useful set of instructional videos I have ever watched- honestly.
