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Video Production, Shot Size - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The script speaks to the right audience
      - The script is polished and approved by all the department heads
    - - The budget meets the projects needs
    - - The script is storyboarded
      - Everyone knows what to shoot next
      - Put a temporary voiceover track and pictures in actual video timeline
- - - - Cut when the character is still in motion (punch, kick, turn, throw, go into the door,,,)
      - Trick and confuse the viewers
      - Viwers can feel the action not just watching
    - - Cut to an insert shot of something and then back
      - The subject can be with the character or not
      - It can adjust the pace of the main action
      - Reveal the new information
    - - Editor cuts back and forth between locations
      - Phone conversation
      - Amp up the tension
      - Show the inside of character's head
    - - Editor cuts between the same shot
      - Shows the passing of time
      - Shows the urgency to the scene
    - - One shot to the similar shot by either matching the action or composition
      - Verbal match cut
      - Keep consistency
      - Keep the logic of the action
    - - Abrupt transition
      - Intense-> quiet/ quiet->intense
      - Contrasting the tone between two scenes
    - - Impression of a single take but cuts are hidden
      - Whip-pan, dark color
      - Looks more natural than other cuts
  - - - Dissolving either to or from black
      - Gives dramatic feeling
      - It can reveal a new information
    - - Blend a shot to another
      - Show the passing of a time
    - - Iris in: A black circle closes to end the scene
      - Iris out: A black circle opens the scene
      - It used to be in camera effect
      - Put emphasis on a particular subject/ character
    - - Transition from one side to the another
      - Many shapes can be used
      - Guide the viewer's attention
    - - Audio comes before the next footage
      - Reveal a new element/character in the scene
    - - Audio carries over to the next footage
      - It's more natural to put audio continuously especially in dialogue scenes
    - - Blur in moving objects
      - Caused by the moves while it takes to expose
      - It can make the subject looks moving faster or slower
- - - - Below the subject's eyeliner looking up subjects
      - Look more powerful
      - Show the power balance between the characters
    - - Diminish the character
      - Make them appear weak or vulnerable
      - Often Paired with low angle to show the balance of the power
      - Aerial shot: show environment, cities, landscapes, character moving large world > show loneliness, being lost
    - - 90 Degree high angle
      - Also called Bird's eye view/ God's eye view
      - Camera directly above the subject, straight down
      - Clearfy the complex connection in the scene
      - Horrific detail of the crime
    - - Skew the horizontal axis of the frame
      - Make the mood of unease, terror and magnify tension
      - More tension between characters more tilt
    - - Most common & natural
      - It doesn't impose any judgement to a character
    - - Lower position, not heavy connection
      - Often used for conversation
      - Over the shoulder shot
      - Show the height difference, power difference
      - Romantic: characters' eye levels are the same
    - - Often used with Cowboy shot > guns holster
      - Extreme close eye shot & hip level shot > Make it exciting
    - - Track through an environment following a character
      - Show details missed in wilder shot
    - - Camera close to the ground sometimes even below the ground
      - Track character's movement
      - Show the missing details
      - It can create the dynamic movement
  - - - Guide viewers' eyes
      - Put emphasis
    - - Response to symmetry feels good to look
      - Only use when you really want to focus powerful moment
    - - Guide your audience to focus on a specific subject
    - - The subject's head is not cut out from the frame
      - Prevent the image from feeling squished or claustrophobic
      - By leaving more space on the opposite side of the direction that the character is facing or looking
    - - Foreground, mid ground, background
      - No foreground, background > No distraction
      - You need to beware of where to shoot, what lens to use
      - The subject can be exaggerated by using different lenses
    - - huge implication
      - Big= important/ Small= Insignificant
      - Choose what to focus on before shooting
    - - The main goal is to convey the message
      - By breaking the rules, you can get different results
  - - - Locking the cameras to the tripod: No camera movement
      - Dialogue
      - Precise compostition
      - Actor's performances to shine
      - Trap a character
      - Show helplessness
    - - Rotate the cameras horizontally
      - Follow characters' actions
      - Reveal a new information
    - - Slow pan anticipation
      - Rapid pan highness energy of shot
      - Relationships between the characters
      - Transition through time and space
    - - Vertical move (up& down)
      - Character dominance vulnerability
      - Reveal new information, character, setting or scales
    - - Move the camera toward the subject
      - Emphasize the moment/ visual cue that this scene is important
      - External detail such as object, text, thought process
      - Shows the internal conflict/ elevate the tension
    - - Deemphasize the subject
      - Signal to disconnect from the character
      - Unveil the context of the scene, setting, characters
      - Detach from the scene, final shot
      - Show isolation, abandonment, helplessness
    - - Change the focus length of the cameras (in or out)
      - Reveal context around the subject (by zooming out)
      - Unnatural movement (because human cannot do this movement)
      - Draw attention to the specific subject (by zooming in)
      - Show uneasiness in horror movie (slow zoom)
    - - Fast zoom
      - Dramatic or comedic effect
    - - Dolly movement and lens movement
      - Vertigo Effect (named from a movie)
      - Dollying in & zooming out
        
        Wider background while maintaining the scale of the foreground
        
        Shows conflict (both internal and external)
      - Dollying out & zooming in
        
        Foreground subject to become dominant over the background
        
        highlight a growing relationship
        
        push away audience and occupy character's POV
      - Positive or negative psychological effect
    - - Turns the camera on its long axis while maintaining the direction of the lens
      - Disorienting, unsettling
      - Matches character's movement
      - Show the change in the power balance
    - - Physically move the camera through the scene usually following the characters (move WITH the character)
      - Audience rise with 2 questions: where the character is going, what will happen when the character gets there
      - Immerse the audience to the scene
      - Documentary style effect
      - Draw attention to the specific action
      - Build tension
    - - Tracking but move left or right with the subject
      - Establish the story's world of the film and character in the story fashion
    - - Orbits around a subject
      - Dynamic when character is standing still
      - Keep our attention in a character, intimate, panic, heroism
      - Emphasize tension and panic
      - Dizzying effect> Show the mental state of the character
    - - Moves the camera up or down
      - Use crane, jib or pedosom
      - Reveal information
      - Follow character's movement, capture the enfvironment
      - Show the character's mental state
    - - Incidental zoom, any movement that happens on the fly
      - Create a subjective experience for more intimate effect
      - Documentary style
      - Happening in the real time, anything can happen
      - Uses both control and chaotic (shows the state of mind)