Thursday, February 7, 2013

Effective Camera Movements

So this is one of my favorite commercials ever by Old Spice and the camera movement is a vital part of selling the effect. The camera has to be continuously moving while not showing transitions between scenes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLTIowBF0kE

I was trying to find a better clip of this sort of effect but you see it all the time where the camera movement anticipates the action that is about to happen. In this case it is a dolly in on Bond right before a train comes darting at him. This shot is at :40 sec. in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR_zQjxbvpY

So one of my favorite CMF films is "Violet" that won Best Drama last year in Hollywood and there is one particular shot that's really cool that is used as a transition shot. A lot of times there is just a jib shot in the mix of an action sequence but I like the way this shot was chosen to transition to another scene. The shot begins at 2:57.
http://www.campusmoviefest.com/movies/15372-violet

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