Basic Shot Types Video Essay

Basic Shot Types from Jakob Morrison on Vimeo.

Process

The final video produced is fairly effective in showing and explaining different shot types. I struggled with this to start with because I was unsure on how to go about the task but once I had an idea of what I wanted my final video to be like I hit the road and didn't look back.

Problem Solving

Working within a group to record our original footage was probably the hardest part of the task mainly because we weren't a very organised team, to combat our team's lack of organisation I filmed a few shot in my own time.

Justification of Decisions

This video was produced to show the basic shot types with a brief explanation for each shot. I have provided my own example as well as a cinematic example to show why such a shot type might be used when.

Recommendations

I would definitely re-shoot the high angle shot, the tracking shot and the dreaded reverse zoom dolly, the example given was terrible and as such I provided the best cinematic example I could think of, the classic Jaws zolly shot. I would also cut down my cinematic example of the extreme close-up because it is slightly too long, although i feel this makes my audience uncomfortable just as the extreme close-up was intended to do.

Cinematic Examples:

Anchorman

Jurrasic World

Iron Man

Jaws

La Haine

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man

Blair Witch Project

Iron Man 2

Fish Tank