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Core assement
Music video
In this music video- Who you are by Craig David and MNEK the video opens up with an establishing shot were they show the location on the music video which is flats, they zoom in which shows a sense of realism ( 0.17) They also used a hand-held camera shot to make it look more realistic as the move the camera up and down as they want us as the viewers to pretend we are in this scene. (0.17) you can see how slow the scene is moving but we can see all the details of the scene, which shows us that they used a high aperture and approximately 135mm focal length. Which makes the scene look much more realistic as we can hear siren noises from (0.12) in the next 5 seconds we can start to hear the music playing which than starts to introduces Craig David and MNEK. (0.18)-(0.33) which shows us the characters that are acting in this music video, as they want to the audience that these two characters will appear more frequently. They also use other camera shots which is low angle and medium close up, low angle is showing how concentrate she is while looking at her phone. They change transitions by introducing us to Craig David and MNEK by using cross cutting tool. They eventually introduce the next main character by using the over the shoulder shot which shows the audience the man looking into the mirror in shock and touching his face, they quick transitions (0.31)-(0.34) which shows his facial expressions and emotions a lot in such a short scene. Making the scene quite emotional and makes us more invested in the music video as a viewer. (0.59) you can see a group of 5 people which makes the music video more interesting because they are introducing more characters which does not make the music video boring and brings some liveliness, the camera shot used in this scene is wide angle, it shows us what going on in the setting and what this music video really means. (1.05)- (1.31) we can see all the different camera angles in this scene that they used in this music video which was close up, medium shot, big close up, high angle and canted angle and a tv transitions which breaks up the scene and introduces the next scene. In (1.45)- (2.12) they tend to use a lot of medium shots and canted angle shots to show and the different movements and emotions in the characters faces and when Craig David and MNEK are singing you can see the passion in their faces using medium long shot and canted angle to show different sides of their body language in this scene. Another way they used brilliant camera techniques in this music video is (2.22)-( 3.27) you can see a lot of close up shots of the characters which show all the different details of their face and emotions, they also used a lot of great transitions by zooming in on the right hand side of the tv screen by re intruding the same group of characters in this scene and seeing their facial expressions and body language by using the canted angle by moving left to right. (3.27) right near the end of the music video it shows the effects of the camera by the production team using low angle while they are in mid air. At the end of the music video they use worms eye view with bright effect to make the characters bold and stand out in the closing minutes.
TV Drama
In this TV Drama - Peaky Blinders. He strangled them, all three of them! opens up with medium shot which helps us as the audience see the characters body language and how they are positioned when engaging with each other, they constantly used the medium shot to make the scene has a feel of realism. (1.07) is when the scene changes up to a close up shot with aperture shot F.2.2 and the lens length will be 50mm and the lens opening is 27.2mm which gives a blurry effect to the image, by them also using the close up shot it builds tension and makes the scene more interesting. (1.54) is a wide angle shot which shows us the characters whole body within this frame, there is also a mid shot which shows the characters from the waist up.
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In this football advertisement by Nike from the start from (0.15) as the two oppositions are playing each other they used the over the shoulder camera angle. At (0.22) they used wide angles to show the intensity of this match. Furthermore they used a lot of close up shoots as one of the boys turn into Wayne Rooney by panning into the back of football shirt and football boots.By them constantly using the close up shots and wide angles we get to see all the different facial expressions and emotions of each person in this advert. (0.56) -(1.00) we can see the long shot camera technique being used here for us to see the whole picture and the quick transitions in between each scene. (1.05) - (1.17) we see a medium close up shot and over the shoulder and also a close up shot, the medium close up shot which shows just above the head and just below the chest. The shot in (0.11) is a panning shot which shows the facial expressions of the woman face in this part of the scene. The close up shot shows us the boy and Cristiano Ronaldo football boots close up which tells us as viewer how important and intense this football match is going to be. Another great camera technique they used high and low angle shots in (2.40) which makes the character look a mixture of large and small, the constant use of high and low angle creates a lot of tension and confusion in this scene. (2.53) shows the football scoreline which zooms out into an extreme long shot which shows the whole football stadium and all the players and fans in the stadium our out of focus.
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