Random Strokes

Lights, camera, action… These are  the three words that capture all the attention for an outsider. Well, we'll  check for the middle one first. Camera… We'll go for types of camera angle and  types of coverage shots in this post. And in part 2 we'll study how camera  angles define or reflect the need of the scene. So let's not waste the time  and start the thing of concern. Physically camera  angles can be of various types (that we'll see in part 2) but theoretically  they are of three types. Objective, Subjective & Point of view. Objective angle is  the most common one that we see normally in any of the film. You watch the  film as in you are just watching it. It is the "fly on the wall"  viewpoint where the audience sees what is happening but feels safely removed  from the events as though they were there, but invisible. The actors must  never look directly at the camera lens for that will destroy the illusion of ...

Hi folks. As promised ago, I’m starting here some notes on Filmmaking related things. We’ll begin with introduction & as it is the first one, I’ll keep it very basic and fundamental. We will move forward in detailed things one by one. So let’s begin. In earlier days, Films were used to be silent i.e. only visuals, no sound. Then came talkies and it gave a meaning to the scene. So a film became an audio-visual presentation. But not every audio-visual is a film. A footage of a street with all background voices/noises or a video of a birthday party has both audio and video but it is not a film. So how films differ from these? Well, a film should convey a story. If that street or that birthday party is having a character that portrays some part of a story and then that footage has become a part of the film. Cool, so more or less a story is needed to be told. Now the way you convey the story is what we call a screenplay. I.e. how will the scenes be played on the screen? (N...