10 CAMERA TECHNIQUES

There are ten main camera techniques used in many different and popular films. Using different techniques and angles makes all films different and interesting so you aren't watching the same shot for 2 straight hours...now that would be boring!
Camera Techniques:
1. whip pan/whip cut
The camera is moved quickly from one angle to another, this technique is mostly used to connect to shots that occur in two different locations.
2. whip zoom look
Zooming in or out very quickly on an object
3. search up
This shot would be exactly like a pan up. The camera slowly moves up the actor or object not showing the whole all at once
4. back to front
This occurs as a wide shot and the viewer sees the action happening in the background, being that the objects in the back are in focus and then eventually focuses on the objects or actors in front that are oblivious to the actions occurring in the back.
5. focus out, pass out
This technique is as if the camera is the actor. The "actor" begins to become unstable to the point of eventually passing out and falling to the ground, most of the time the shot ending titled and "wonky"
6. focus transition
At first the image appears very blurry where the viewer would have no idea what they are looking at and gradually become clear and sharp.
7. overexposed fade/underexposed fade
The exposure, or brightness, is gradually changed overtime whether it be going from pitch black and fading into the shot, or extremely bright (almost white) and fading into the picture.
8. ceiling twist
This and the sleepover technique are very similar, the camera is faced up toward the ceiling or sky as if the actor is looking up and spinning in circles, like a twist on point of view.
9. shifting angle
this is most commonly used when the director wants to create the illusion that the room itself is titling from side to side. The camera continuously changes the viewing angle along the tilting horizontal axis.
10. sleepover
The camera is placed from a bird's eye view looking down on that actor or object while spinning in continuous circles.

After studying these techniques my group and I went out to demonstrate our knowledge of the ten main techniques. This project introduced me to new techniques I never knew about and the names of techniques that I already had a brief understanding of.