IMAGES OF CAMERA ANGLES/SHOTS WE WILL USEA2 Media Studies

Birds Eye View• This shows a scene from directly overhead, a very

unnatural and strange angle. Furthermore People can be made to look insignificant, ant-like, part of a wider scheme of things.

• We will use this camera angle to give the audience perspective on our school and to view it in a way that not many people have seen. By doing this, viewers will see the grounds and size of the school and denote that the 6th form attend a great school.

Eye Level • This is a fairly neutral camera angle, the camera would be

positioned as though a human would be observing the scene, similar to ‘Point of View’. Camera would approximately be 5 – 6 feet from the ground typically.

• This angle will be used as it is not to hard to shoot and is also useful for us when conducting interviews, which we want to heavily include. Below would be an example of an eye level camera angle.

Close Up • A close up shot is one that shows very little background

and would usually concentrate on either a face or on a specific detail within ‘mise-en-scene’. Close up shots magnify the object and in some cases can show the importance of things.

• We want to use the camera shot when filming the ‘Pre’. Close up shots of the DJ decks that one of our participants will be using is also what we want. Using close ups will denote the idea of partying and help us with ‘mise-en-scene’

Establishing Shot• An establishing shot is one that is typical at the beginning

of a new scene and is designed to show the audience where the action is taking place and is usually a very wide shot or extreme wide shot.

• Establishing shots will be used to signify to the viewer where we are in the documentary, a location. Specifically this will be done at Reeds School as well as at the club ‘33Hertz’ and we will film at the pre.

Medium Shot• This shot would usually contain a shot from above the

waist, variations on this include a ‘two shot’ (containing two figures from the waist up) and the ‘three shot’ (contains 3 figures). Furthermore anymore than three people in the shot and it starts to turn into a long shot.

• Medium shot is good for when we have b-roll footage of reeds pupils and upper 6th form. A medium shot will most likely for us be used in the 6th form house and when pupils are walking to and from lessons.

Long Shot• This shot is one of the more harder ones to define, but

shows the image as approximately ‘life’ size. This entails showing a full shot showing the entire human body, with the head near the top of the frame and feet near the bottom.

• This will most likely be used like the medium shot in the 6th form house when filming some of the pupils. At the pre we will also want to make use of this shot.

Two Shot• This type of shot shows two people standing next to each

other in a shot normally used to show two people speaking or interaction in some other way such as in a fight etc. In documentaries this type of shot is most commonly used as a way of filming interviews.

• We are planning to use the camera shot when interviewing Joe, Angus and Jennifer Hart the psychology teacher.

Why we want to use these shots? • We want to use these camera angles and shots in our

documentary as we want our production to look as clean and professional as possible. That means studying shot types in order to create a documentary which follows the codes and conventions of other documentaries but with originality at the same time. Once we studied these we had better knowledge of how to do this.