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Video Production - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Set dressing
      - Location, light, surrounding colors tones
      - Uplifting? Melancholic? Dreamy?
      - Environment: Wide open? Oppression? Darkness?
    - - Externalizing the internal state of a character.
      - Inner state of actors.
- - - - The most common visual element to open a scene or oven an entire film.
      - Wide enough to establish the geography and the time of day.
      - Scale of subjects in relation of their environment.
      - Often used to transition between scenes.
      - Introduce a new scene(critical details about the location or world).
      - Often followed up with a master shot.
    - - Confirms the location and geography of the scene.
      - Clarifies which characters are in the scene.
      - Where the characters are in relationship to each other.
      - Captures the scene playing out in its entirety, providing the editor with something to cut out to, if necessary.
    - - Position subjects far from the camera to visually represent their relationship to their environment.
      - Concerned with the scale of the subject.
      - Can be used when need to make subjects appear lose, lonely, or overwhelmed.
      - Comment on a subject's relationship to their environment.
      - Use it when need to establish these spatial relationships of the subjects.
      - Make statements using distance, depth, or size.
    - - Subjects entire body reaches from the top to the bottom edges of the frmae.
      - Not necessary to put the subject in the center of the frame, but it's very often it's the case.
      - Tight enough to tell a story with the character's face, and wide enough to further the story by observing the character's entire body, posture, and environment.
      - Composed head to toe.
      - Use it when need to make statements about a subject's physicality and present a character in all their glory.
    - - Arrange from the top of the subject's head to just below their waist.
      - Sometimes referred to as a Cowboy Shot based on the height of gun holsters.
      - Use it when need to present a subject as confident, dangerous, or confrontational, especially when weapons might be drawn.
    - - The most popular shot size in all of cinema is the medium shot because it's more of a neutral shot, neither dramatic like a close-up or distancing like a wide shot.
      - Captures the subject in a size similar to how we interact with people.
      - Starts above the waist but below the chest and ends just above the head.
      - Deployed the same animated films function under the same compositional rules.
      - Can observe character's emotion alone with the object of his affection in a single frame.
      - Use it when need to dig into a subject size without losing their physicality or environment or utilize a true middle-ground approach that's neither jarring nor especially dramatic.
    - - From mid-chest to just above their head(roughly head to chest.
      - Reducing distraction and prioritizing story and character details.
      - Using when need to get intimate with a subject.
    - - Most powerful weapon for highlighting a change in emotion or dramatic beat on screen.
      - Most often arranged at eye level, it's better to dig into the windows of the soul.
      - About empathy and illustrates how dramatically effective it can be in a time of decision or anxiety.
    - - Frames a subject to isolate a specific area(eyes are typically focus).
      - When function of a specific prop or an intimate detail in necessary, filmmakers will often rely on the insert shot(most commonly used to highlight and isolate something crucial to the narrative).
      - One of the greatest tools for emphasis, it's the most intimate, dramatic, and potentially starting of all shot sizes.