Intro
In thriller movies, camera movement is less about showing action and more about controlling the audience's heart rate. In this genre, the camera acts as an invisible character sometimes it represents the eyes of a stalker, and other times it represents the growing instability of the protagonist’s mind. Thrillers use a lot of pan tracking shots to transmit to the audience as they are watching something that is not supposed to.
Another big camera technique that many directors use for thriller movies is the dolly zoom effect; this is when the camera moves forward but at the same time it zooms out. This technique can be especially useful to show internal panic or vertigo, which can transmit to the audience the panic that the character is experiencing through weird stretches. A lot of the times that this technique is used is to break reality to something or someone shattering that sense of protection that the characters feel and changing it for the sense of consequences coming. An example is when the character realizes they have been betrayed or that the killer is in the house.
.jpg)
Another example of camera technique that is frequently used in thrillers is the shaky handheld cam, which can be combined when tracking someone and is meant to recreate the physical movement of a human body. What this does to us the audience is transmit instability, chaos, and lack of control, creating the sense of reality immersing the audience deeply into the movie creating physical anxiety
Diving more into the psychological subgenre of thrillers, we have camera movement that are used as tools to blur the line between reality and delusion. While a regular thriller use movement to show you where the killer is, a psychological thriller uses movement to show you how the protagonist feels.
One example is
The Dutch Angle
Dutch angle which is when the camera is tilted so that is not aligned with the ground and is meant for it to mean mental instability, disorientation, and that feeling that something is wrong. By physically tilting the world, the director makes the audience feel uneasy. It is the visual equivalent of a panic attack. It tells the viewer that the character’s internal world is no longer balanced or sane.
Overview
After finishing researching camera movements that could be interesting to use in my film. I feel better about how our film is going to look like and how it is going to help us transmit the message we want to transmit. Camera movements are one of the technical movements that is the most important because it helps the movie not feel clinical and distant. Movement keeps your nervous system engaged. By moving the camera, the director controls how you feel.
No comments:
Post a Comment