Master Shots Vol 1, 2nd Edition: 100 Advanced Camera Techniques to Get an Expensive Look on Your Low-Budget Movie

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Put simply, a master shot is a film recording of an entire dramatized scene, beginning to end, from a camera angle that keeps all the characters in view. By following five key steps, you’ll gain more control over the viewer’s attention, because understanding how to stage, schedule, and capture a complex master shot will transform your film into a tour de force.

Even when the clock is ticking and the light is fading, the techniques in this book can rescue your film and make every shot look like it cost a fortune.

Today, the master shot is still a key element of film production, but scenes are not built around the master shot in the same way that they were when professional filmmaking was in its infancy. A master shot is a continuous take of an entire scene, from beginning to end, from a camera angle that shows the main elements involved. Establishing shot: “a shot type which sets up, or establishes, the context for a scene by showing the relationship between its important figures and objects. Collaborate with your cast a crew, establish the rhythm and tone of your scene, and find a “take” that works really well.

The Martian (2015): For a scene depicting a secret meeting about Project Elrond, director Ridley Scott uses heavy cutting, multiple locations, and close-up inserts.At times, establishing shots can be meant to provide roughly the same amount of comprehensive information, but they’re really meant more to provide deeper looks into tone and story development, and can focus on extraneous elements like landscape, time of day, or the mood of the film.

Have fun with these first takes, experiment with the scene, but make sure you end your setup with a definitive take that you will work from for the remainder of the scene setups. unmotivated: Motivated shots actively track elements of the scene, mainly characters, as the action progresses.

If there is no second example for the shot how are we to know if this is really a reusable shot, or when it is appropriate?