Motivated Camera Movement

Ideally, there should be a good artistic reason behind everything you do during a production. Don’t just vary the shot for the sake of visual variety or to relieve the monotony.

Motivation

Whenever you make a change of any kind, that the audience does not want, or cannot understand, you have every prospect of frustrating them! If while watching someone demonstrating how to fit an accessory, you cut away to a closeup of their face,or pull out to a long shot, the viewer will resent the change.

•A camera move can arise:naturally — zooming in as the speaker points out details.

•Or you can deliberately create motivation. The seated speaker gets up to fetch a book to show to camera. The move looks natural enough,but it ...

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