Hi guys, Jordy here from Yapper Design and welcome to this brand new tutorial category,
Camera Techniques.
Today I will teach you 3 techniques to make your dialogue scene interesting to watch.
It's possible to film everything from one angle, but it will look very theatrical and
boring and that's not what we want.
So what we need to do is mix camera angles with nice looking camera frames and maybe
add some dolly shots.
But when it comes to all of this we need to use our brain.
We can't just go crazy on it, there have to be some grand rules and good preparations
are always handy.
Let's take a look at this scene.
The camera shots are great, but the scene is just wrong.
The audience is being disorientated all the time, therefore there is a rule of 180 degree.
Just draw an invisible line through the characters.
Now you can pick a site where you can put your camera.
This example never goes into the red area, so once you've chosen a site you can never
cross the axis again.
So when we look at this scene now you can see it looks way more natural as it should be.
The second tip to make a dialogue scene more interesting are inserts.
These are small shots, most of the time close-ups, that provide extra information to your scene.
For example when the boss shows the paper to our employee, we can take a close-up from
it and insert it into the conversation.
Inserts could also be reactions like showing how nervous the employee is by filming a close-up
of her face or filming her hand when she gets up.
The last tip is more advanced, dolly shots.
These are shots that travel from one point to another, they look so great and so professional,
but when they make no sense at all, please don't use it.
A common use of the dolly are travel shots, as to open your scene and reduce the subjects
or to follow someone when she is walking.
Now thank you very much for watching this tutorial and we hope you learned many things
from it.
Now let's watch this scene with everything that we've learned today and don't forget
to check out our website www.yepredesign.com.
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I'm not going to do this job anyway.
