Camera movement Research

Camera movement -

We are reading visual stories. We're inferring things from the story that's embedded or with cuts but the camera has a voice too.  When you move the camera for a motivated reason the camera dissappears behind the plot.  The camera becomes invisible.

sometimes the filmmaker uses the camera and seperates the movement from the story and the character and its as if the camera has a voice of its own.

The slow push in - Coen brothers, it says look harder, there's something below the surface. It can be used to connect meaning between shots.

The creep out - abandons the character, distances the subject.  Can be used to show a missed connection.

The turn away - you are set up with anticipation, the camera leaving the subjects decides for you that its too much to bear, and provides emotional connection that causes the viewer to resign, fear or cope or assume that it was too intense to view.

Distracted camera - as if the camera has lost interest in the story.  Shows that a characters viewpoint might not be as important, provides an outlook of loneliness or detachment. 

The camera yelling - fast dolly rushing in, quick Dutch tilt. Points at a moment, narrator or director saying hey look here.  It's saying something that the camera isn't.

Crane down - move you into the characters world or the scene.

Crane up - shows how small the character is or how large the obstacle is that the character must overcome.

Crane high to low angle - makes character look strong and opposing and creates a lot of fear

Handheld - creates a feeling of uneasiness or danger

Quick pan - quickly changes the emotional direction, reveals something dangerous or an obstacle

Quick push in - surprise or shock

Slow dolly in - creates tension creates intimacy with character

Slow dolly out - leaves character looking emotionally lost and abandoned. Creates empathy in the viewer 

Dolly across - actions or change in the emotional direction of a scene / reveals something that changes the emotion.

Glidecam shot - creates ballet or dance feeling, epic, dreamy. 

Glidecam 360 reveal - calm before the storm, surveying, something is about to happen.

Zola (dolly + zoom) - creates an overwhelming emotional feeling.