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Camera Angles
If you were to introduce a soap characters entrance how would you film it?
I would film it where the camera is behind a corner and the character is on front of the character and pull the camera round on the dolly track and film them looking at wherever they are heading ie. The Rovers or Woolpack. I would also film the character sitting in their car next to The Kabin and the camera comes down on the boom and focuses on through the windscreen and shows them in the car as a possible entrance. How would you film yours in camera angles? |
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You could also get the character to drive in and film them getting out the car etc.
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For a Corrie camerman, your sure not specific and explanatory with your camera angles!!
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Okay then, keep the dolly track horizontle with the shot we are trying to establish for the rehearsal.
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Originally Posted by dalton007
If you were to introduce a soap characters entrance how would you film it?
I would film it where the camera is behind a corner and the character is on front of the character and pull the camera round on the dolly track and film them looking at wherever they are heading ie. The Rovers or Woolpack. As for my own ideas, I like the idea of having a crane shot (this would have to be done carefully so as not to expose the fake backdrops and stuff) and do a pan of the area before focusing on a new character and zooming in. |
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Good point!!!
You have good ideas too. We rarely do crane shots because of the space etc we have on set and like you said it would clearly display the backdrops etc when that isn't necessary in the shot. We use steadicams and dolly tracks etc for Coronation Street. |
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Yeah I figured there wasn't enough space for a crane shot, but still I love crane shots LOL.
Another one you could do is to have a POV (Point Of View) shot where the new character remains unseen by the audience and we watch people going about their business, through this new characters POV. Then someone notices the new character and goes up to the camera and starts talking to the camera before cutting to reveal the new person's face. |
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Do you mean cutting so the camera focuses on the new character?
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Yeah...because at first you wouldn't see the new character, the audience would be watching a scene unfold through the new character's eyes, then somebody would come and talk to this new character so it would appear that they were talking to the camera, then you would cut from the POV (from the new character's perspective) to reveal the new character's face (Since everything has been seen through the new character's POV, we actually haven't seen the new character) and then go into the normal shot reverse shot pattern.
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Good ideas.
We use 2-4 cameras for interior shots (studio) so we don't necessarily need to cut and film each character individually. It works in a rythm that follows the script.
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how can we believe you are a cameraman? i am sceptical
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I don't suppose there is anyway to prove it but I am honest with you all.
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hmmmm ok i suppose you are right
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Thanks Laura.
What do you work as?
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i am a staff nurse
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Good stuff!!!
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As for me, I am doing a bachelor of Communications hoping to major in Television, so you never know one day I may have a similar job to dalton's.
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You could be yes.
You could be a technical engineer for sound or camera too!!!!! |
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camera man? he he he!
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Some good storylines coming up!!
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whatever.........
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everyone is sceptical then.....
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I'd have to say, I thought the entrance of Honor Blackman was very badly done the other night. For such a high profile, famous actress, she just suddenly appeared in the middle of a conversation. Very unimaginative.
I would have had the usual mixture of establishing 2-shot and MCUs of Norris & Fred during their conversation, then the bell ringing to let us know the Kabin door had opened, CUs as reaction shots of Norris & Fred, a POV shot from Honor's angle and finally, after building up the suspense, an LS of Honor in all her glory. A bit clichéd perhaps, but it would have worked for that scene. |
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do you realise what your talking about.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DS DIVAS
do you realise what your talking about.
MCU - medium close up CU - close up POV - point of view LS - long shot Simple! |
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