#camera work

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Jennifer Connelly in Requiem for a Dream (2000)

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

okay so idk what meta is but listen THE DIRECTION ON DEAD BOY DETECTIVES IS FUCKING SUPERB. UNRIVALLED. AND I NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT TO THE HELLSITE VOID. SO LISTEN.

transitions. between scenes. it's so easy to cross-fade, or just hard cut, or fade to black and then open the next scene. sometimes, if a piece of media is putting in a bit of effort, you'll see things like water transitioning to sky or maybe a background being continuous while the characters change or vice versa.

but dead boy detectives. the transitions are fucking flawless. and so creative, like everything about this show. creative transitions are difficult to do, and they keep getting it right. whether it's someone holding up a circle and that melds into the next scene where the railing has a circle in it, or the camera moving downwards from the floor in one location to under a table in a different location, or them falling out of mirrors, they take the tiniest of elements and turn them into transitions so fucking deliciously, and everything is so dynamic, both the camera and the scene.

and that makes it so much more impactful when there IS a hard cut. like in episode 5 (where the You Know What occurs with Jenny). the cut from the mascot at the high school scene to the butcher's shop is BRUTALLY hard, with Jenny again slicing into things with her meat cleaver, and it lends an extra air of violence to that meat cleaver--which is such great foreshadowing for what happens later (even the initial establishing shot of the butcher's shop at the start of the episode makes the cleaver in the sign flash red, drawing attention to it).

the direction helps the narrative so much, giving both atmosphere and foreshadowing without needing to fatten the dialogue with it.

and apart from all that just the general camerawork is so creative and helps with the campy feel of the show, with characters being bang in the middle of frames or with the camera holding a lovely shot for longer than a beat like Edwin and Niko cocking their heads to the side it's all such a lovely, choreographed dance between the camera, the actors, the set and the script and NGKKK.

[olicohens]

oh no you guys. i’m going to spew things i’ve realized while rewatching umbrella academy. I’m realizing were all being too sucked into fanon things after being stuck without canon content for so long. We have convinced ourselves Five acts like a mean mean dude to everyone but rewatching, i’ve realized he’s only stressed and is saying things out of panicked anger, especially in s1 with the apocalypse dooming over them. he acts soft to his siblings multiple times, he’s really not as mean as we write him in fanfiction. he is a little crap though, that’s for sure, and i love him for that <3

also realizing that the siblings don’t hate five. they just literally don’t know him at all. he came back a completely different person after 17 years for the siblings, they don’t know five, he’s a stranger so of course they’re gonna be cold to him. it’s like, “i don’t know you well, but you’re always going to be my brother in the end”.

ALSO. for those who ship some of the siblings, uhm… i’ve seen a lot of you guys try to prove that they don’t see eachother as siblings and more like academy students, but they very much say in just about every episode that they see eachother as siblings. they don’t actually SAY that word by word but they say things like “she’s our sister”, or “our dad”. if they say OUR dad… bro. i’m not even going to continue, you can put it together yourself. But, i do realize why people ship the siblings. I am not defending incest shippers but with umbrella academy i can see why people have resorted to it. only 3 of the characters in the main sibling cast has romantic partners. people like shipping people, people love writing romantic relationships, but with only diego/lila, dave/klaus, and sissy/viktor, (i’m not going to count five/dolores for now) people are desperate with the need to ship the rest of the siblings with someone, and since there are only a few actual canon characters in the show that interact with our main 7, people start shipping them together… yikes. anywho, that’s all for that peice. i blame the show writers as well for shipping luther/allison, they did not have to do that, but i’m hoping it was only to convey the severity of what childhood trauma does to people.

ALSO THIS HERE SHOOK ME. I actually think Reginald cares for the siblings. i hate to say it, but it’s true. caring for them does not mean being good, though. he was a horrible father, and person, but he genuinely did care for the siblings, in a like, “being the best is the best thing for you, i will make you better, for your sake, even if you don’t know it now, you will see that i am right” kind of way.

also why has NOBODY MENTIONED THIS. in season 2 when diego first reunites with five in the asylum, while he’s walking into the visitors room, he’s staring at five with this heartfelt, soft look, and then says “five…” in the most soft spoken voice ever 😭 your honor i love them

ALSO UGHHH THIS. IM GOING TO FREAK OUT ABOUT CAMERAWORK AND METAPHORS HERE SO BARE WITH ME. we as a fandom complain about the lack of flashbacks five has due to his ptsd. we’ve seen his first flashback since getting back to his family in s1 during the van scene when he gets triggered by those kids playing and starts thinking about his own childhood, i’m guessing. i ate that scene up, and was sad to see that be one of the only deeply vulnerable scenes he has in the season, and during my first watch i thought they’d never bring it back up. but they do!! i may be stupid for not realizing but whatever. in season 2, when five is trying to explain at elliot’s with all his siblings around that another apocalypse is coming, everyone starts talking about each other. as someone who studies film and camerawork, i love this scene. we see the camera focus on five as it slowly zooms in. it doesn’t switch scenes at all as the siblings voices overlap and echo over eachother. this whole scene conveys him getting overwhelmed and he starts to zone out, starting to think of the nuclear war he saw his siblings in. the scenes of the war start quickly switching through, showing many different scenes of it before it switches back to five, who says “guys, you all die. i want to forget it but i can’t” which just UGH its so well done there. if you think about it, he was starting to slip into another flashback. he was triggered by talking about their deaths in the war but was handling it well until the siblings started fighting, where we see the overlapping voices happen. it portrays him losing control and being unable to pull it back together with too much going on for him to focus on grounding himself. we DO however, see that five was able to pull himself out before he fell too deep into the flashback. i love how they show this through them still having the scene showing the war, but then fives voice starts talking over the scene which is still focusing on the war as if he was pushing it back and forcing himself to come back to the present.

thank you for reading if you’ve made it this far, i will continue to freak out another time <3

[dominik528]

The Umbrella Academy

2×04 / 3×07 / 3×09

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

Porch Shadows, 1916

- Paul Strand

[non-cannon]

Was just reminded of the season 1 scene where Nina fails to remember the code to Victor's safe despite holding the paper that Fabian wrote it down on. And the thing is, if I recall correctly, even though we can tell she's holding it, the camera never actually shows what's on the paper while she's holding it in that scene. And I suspect that that's intentional, and that they were hoping if we couldn't see the paper we wouldn't remember the plot hole.

And to be fair, I didn't remember this plot hole until like a decade later, so it worked

[topwright]

ARE YOU AN ASPIRING ACTOR AND INTERESTED IN HORROR? IF SO, PLEASE READ:

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I wanted to tell yall that auditions are open again. Now that my break is over, (I was going through some self doubt and missing motivation for my project and made a brash decision to drastically change it which has now been revoked) we'll be resuming the auditions for Marina Collie (koh-lee) and James Haddonfield!! If you're interested, here are the requirements below:

-must be 18 or older

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[nieuwe-secession]

Art / Symbol

[amaranth-aether]

[scarefox]

I find it a bit irritating that they use face tracking camera moves / camera follows actors face in close ups (like that one tiktok filter) in "Two Worlds".

It's probably barely visible? But I notice this stuff. Especially because I learned that certain camera moves feel unnatural in dramas (like the zoom). imo face tracking feels unnatural too. Gives an original calm or even static shot too much fast movement 🤔

Not really a critic. Not like it bothers me that much. Just an observation for myself. Didn't notice this technique in other dramas so far. Maybe they test it in this one. But weirdly I only notice it on Nat / Kram scenes, because he nods a lot when he talks and the cam follows that movement.

(drama cams are supposed to mimic human eye behavior so the audience feels more immersed and doesn't get reminded of the cameras presence. Zooms and face tracking is nothing we can do with our eyes... well face tracking maybe when you are hyper focusing on someone's face like a guard dog lol)

[chuckersatz]

-MARIE PIERRE - PRIMITIVA-

[cadrage]

" Marie Pierre joue Primitiva au Château de la Maye dans le cadre de la résidence du Fonds de dotation Verrecchia. "

Real. : Thibaut ACigar

Assist. : Fanny Bonely

Cadre : Clémentine Friot

Oct. 2023 @ Château de la Maye, Versailles, France

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[rwpohl]

frankenstein. erbarmen, zu spät! johannes brandrup, 3sat 1999 proben- und drehplan, fragment editing notes 1999

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frankenstein. erbarmen, zu spät! johannes brandrup, 3sat 1999experimental theatre, halle roter oktober weimar example clip: camera work, edit video projections

[bugsrfairies]

I LOVE IT WHEN AN INVISIBLE MONSTER IS SHOWN TO THE AUDIENCE WITH A CREEPY CAMERA ANGLE WALKING THROUGH A HOUSE

[brainrotcharacters]

When irl pisses me off, I rewatch the Honda Odyssey scene to relax

[deyaviews]

I adore the visual trickery artists, camera operators and directors perform with the audience’s field of vision

Today I learned 3D animation is a horror show outside the camera's field of view.