Types of shots (creative shots)

Introduction

• Instead of just researching the usual shots I decided to do some research into creative shots used in films to create certain meanings.

http://www.empireonline.com/features/film-studies-101-camera-shots-styles

1 of the shots I particularly liked was the Dutch tilt. A shot where the camera is tilted on its side to create a kooky angle. Often used to create disorientation. This was well used in the 60s version of bat man and many other blockbuster films, typically scary films to create that sense of disorientation. Another shot that I liked was the dolly zoom. A shot that sees the camera track forward toward a subject while simultaneously zooming out creating a woozy, vertiginous effect. This shot was used in a famous scene in the movie Jaws.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB4bikrNzMk

Another shot that I liked and found very creative was the cowboy shot. A shot framed from mid-thigh up, so called because of its recurrent use in Westerns. When it comes, it gives the inclination that there will be a shooting fight or that the one person will get out the gun and pull the trigger. Well used in the Clint Eastwood movie ‘the good the bad and the ugly’.

3:23 the good the bad and the ugly, Cowboy shot.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0BrdMi-

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Lastly another shot that I was quite fond of was the high angle shot. This shot has been used many times before. A shot looking down on a character or subject often isolating them in the frame. One film that used this shot quite a lot was a horror film called

The Purge. Film clip of a high angle shot in The Purge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFP5COa-VBY