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Moonrise Kingdom (2012)-Wes Anderson (first 2 minutes of clip) Shot 1: Wide shot, begin to track on dolly This establishing shot begins the long dolly shot that brings us through the scene. Throughout the shot, the characters move to different places on the screen, but the camera stays in the same place, tracking along beside them. This is broken up several times with cutaways, but makes up the majority of the scene. The scoutmaster is making his morning rounds to each of his scouts in order to check on their activities. The forward movement and framing of the scoutmaster and his assistant scout, in addition to the music, create a militaristic feeling of order and power. Shot 2: Stop tracking, medium shot, then continue tracking The camera has stopped tracking for a moment and the characters have moved forward in the frame tok a medium shot. While we've been seeing the same shot for several seconds, the frame within a frame and movement of characters in and out of ...

One of the most famous examples of camera movement is the opening scene of Boogie Nights  (1997). A steadicam is used to track various members of the nightclub, swinging from one subject to the next, as if the camera itself were a character in the bustling scene of the crowded club. Another extremely famous tracking shot is from The Shining  (1980) where the camera tracks young Danny on his big wheel as he rides through the hotel. To achieve a tracking shot at such a low angle, the steadicam operator was actually pushed on a wheelchair behind Danny's character, holding the camera low. This long tracking shot lets the viewer feel the enormity of the hotel and  puts emphasis on how much of a maze the place is, as a lot of the places Danny cycles through smoothly would not connect geographically in the film. Wes Anderson is known for his masterful camera movements, one of which occurs in this scene in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004). This crane shot is used ...

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I am definitely a new comer in the world of equipment, but these are some of the blogs I found interesting: 1. Zacuto Blog http://www.zacuto.com/how-to-shoot-rain-like-a-pro I read a very interesting post on the technicalities of shooting rain. It's ironic that rain can very often ruin an outdoor shoot, but when you're shooting rain, you have to work extremely hard to recreate what is usually a nuisance. I learned that you have to very closely monitor the natural lighting so that the fake rain doesn't look fake. Rain can add so much depth to a shot because of the way water reflects light onto the actors, but it is extremely expensive and difficult to reproduce artificially. A trick that this article mentioned was to make it look like it had just finished raining by slicking down the street and pouring water over trees so that it would be dripping from the leaves during the shot. 2. The Black and Blue Blog http://www.theblackandblue.com/blog/page/3/ Scrolling th...