Jacob Nicholson Film Space

Reading Summary:

A movie or film is made of many shots or still frames. Shots can be defined by distance, area, or subject. A shot defined by distancer can be a close up, or a long shot. Shots defined by area include possibly a certain room which is called and establishing shot. Shots defined by what they contain are called a two shot, tree shot, or even over the shoulder shot. Certain shots are used to convey a meaning or an emotion. There are subjective and objective shots. Objective is what the camera sees and subjective is what the character sees. Subjective is also known as POV or point of view. Cuts are versions of the film that have been edited. A rough cut is an early version, and a final cut is the version the audience will see. 

Personal Example:

            My personal connection is when I used to shoot stop motion films with my friends. A stop motion film is a complied of many single shots that are then played together to create a “motion” picture. We used Legos and we created an Indiana jones type skit. We had to take a picture of the scene and then slightly move the character or the position of the camera and then take another picture. We repeated this process for hours until we had a few minutes of playable film. In the end we used many different shots and had to build many different scenes. 

Reading Connection: 

            I used a landscape shot that was a long shot. It was shot from below. I wanted to convey a sense of journey and adventure by showing the full room and the traps. Another one of my shots was an over the shoulder shot when Indiana jones grabbed the treasure to show a sense of accomplishment. It was near impossible to show any subjective view, however the over the shoulder gave a little bit of what the Lego man character would be seeing. A stop motion does not have cuts the same way a film might. Since a stop motion allows you to individually control each shot you end up with a final cut by default.