I have been watching movies and thinking about how most newbie short films don't have the camera zoomed in on the subject close enough in a lot of frames. I have been looking at movies and thinking about how shots should look to match movies I have watched on tv or dvd. Anyways, I was thinking we need a thread on how to choose to pick the frame correctly when filming.
Maybe we should have people draw out how they think a frame should look versus the typical mess up zoomed too far out look we see in newbie footage.
For example a shot could be of a car with a person in it talking on a cell phone. A newbie may show the whole car and the person would be hard to see in the shot. The more refined shot would be zoomed in on the actors face and the cell phone and only show a small part of the car like the A-pillar and top of door since that is where the actors face is.
I guess my thought is if you want your movie to look professional you must choose shots that look like they were done by a professional. So I was trying to think about what shots are chosen to give it that look.
Maybe we should have people draw out how they think a frame should look versus the typical mess up zoomed too far out look we see in newbie footage.
For example a shot could be of a car with a person in it talking on a cell phone. A newbie may show the whole car and the person would be hard to see in the shot. The more refined shot would be zoomed in on the actors face and the cell phone and only show a small part of the car like the A-pillar and top of door since that is where the actors face is.
I guess my thought is if you want your movie to look professional you must choose shots that look like they were done by a professional. So I was trying to think about what shots are chosen to give it that look.
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