Independent Research: Camera Angles

Birds-Eye View: Shows a scene from directly above.
High Angle: The camera is elevated above the scene.
Eye Level: The camera is positioned as though it is an actual person observing the scene.
Low Angle: These increase height and give a sense of speeded motion. 
Canted Angle: The camera is tilted to suggest imbalance and instability. 

Independent Research: Camera Shots

• Extreme Long shot: Generally used as a scene- setting, establishing shot. it typically shows the exterior of a building or a landscape. 
• Long Shot: Typically shows the full shot of an entire human body. The background is still visible, but the main focus is on the actor to help establish the setting. 
• Mid Shot: Contains only part of a figure within the frame. These are normally used within dialogues scenes.
• Close- up: Shows very little background and is mostly concentrated on one specific detail of miss-en-scene or the face. 
• Extreme Close-Up: Magnifies a specific detail that the human eye would experience in reality and has no focus on the background. 
• Two-Shot: A shot involving two people within the frame. 
• Cutaway: A shot of something other than the specific subject.
• Over the Shoulder Shot: Looking from behind a person or object at the subject.
• Point-of- View shot: A view from the actor's perspective. 
• Weather shot: The main focus is on the weather.

Independent Research: Camera Movements

Tracking Shot: The movement of the camera going backwards and forwards.
Tilt Shot: The movement of the camera going upwards or downwards.
Zoom: The movement of the camera into and away from the character.
Arc Shot: The camera moving in a full or semi circle around the character.
Crab Shot: The movement of the camera that follows the character from the side.
Panning Shot: The movement of the camera from left to right.
Crane Shot: The movement of the camera vertically or from above the character.

Planning: To Do List

As a part of planning up to creating my music video, I have created a to-do list in order to keep organised during my planning: 

• Casting
• Location planning for every scene
• Costume planning
• Props Planning
• Equipment planning
• Shot list
• Schedule for filming

Planning: Storyboard

1. As an introduction, there will just be a blank screen and there will be the sound of a child crying.

2. Timelapse fades in alongside the beginning of the song.

3. The child is holding the camera and is filming herself whilst a mother figure is trying to take it off of her. This is from the child's point of view.

4.The child is running through a field whilst her mum follows behind her.

5. Clip of the waves coming into the tide.

6. Footprints in the sand of mother and toddler with the camera following from behind.

7. Various short clips of home movies between child and family and the child and friends.
8. Shots of woodlands and cuts to close-ups of leaves and flowers etc.
9. A teenage girl running through the woods. quick cut to her feet then tracks up to her whole body, then a crab shot of her running.
10. Close-ups of birds in trees.
11. Tracking shot of the close-up of a leaf falling into a bonfire.
12.Close-ups of two teenagers faces then of their eyes. The blink is used as a transition.

13. Self- directing of a couple showing rings (Skype etc) 

14. Clip of woman walking a dog through the same field as a when she was a toddler.

15. Different angles of the dog, close-up.

16. Close-up of an old woman's hand stroking the dog and putting a lead on him.

17. Follows their footsteps from behind.

18. Tracking shot following the old woman and the dog. 

 

 

19. Sunset appears behind the old woman.

20. Cuts back to waves clip.

21. Bird flying away from branch.

22. Sideshot of her infront of the sunset.

23. Clips of home movies from the beginning.

24.  Time lapse of sunset.  

 

 

25. Close- up of old woman's eyes. Blinking used as a transition.

26. Close- up of toddler's eyes.