More Camera Angles

- Denotation: The basic meaning: what you actually see?

- Connotation: The ideas associated with what you see.

Psycho

Whilst watching a short scene from psycho, we realised that there were a range of different camera angles and transitions used. There were few pan shots, medium shots, extreme close ups (on her eye and the drain), zooming in and out (from the drain) and a visual match from the eye to the drain.

More Camera Angles

- Visual Match: One image merging into another.

- Shot Reverse Shot: One character looking at another character and then the other character looking back.

- Continuity Editing: TO establish a logical coherence between shots.

- Eye Line Match: First shot shows a character looking off screen at something and the second shot shows the object/character being looked at.

- Cross Cutting: An editing technique used in film to establish continuity. the camera will move away from one action to another action.

- Action Matching: Often used to smooth the transition from one period of time and another. e.g. From a kid dancing to a adult dancing.

- Graphic Matching: Smoothly visual transfer from one shot to another. e.g. Drain to eye from the movie 'Psycho'.

As you can see from the image above, I have tried to draw some common camera shots that are used a lot. I have drawn shots from Extra Close Ups to Extra Long Shots. I did this so I could identify the different type of length shots that are used.