Film & Media Studies | Why Use a Close-Up?: Shot Scale and Angle @filmandmediastudieschannel | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 1 hour ago
In this video, the second in a three-part series on cinematography, we explain the vocabulary of shot scale (etc. close-up, medium shot, long shot) and camera angle (e.g. high angle, low angle), discuss some common pitfalls in analyzing camera angle using the films of Alfred Hitchcock, and analyze the shot scale pattern of the film A Man Escaped (Bresson, 1957).

This video is part of a series on cinematography and framing:

Cinematography and Framing Part 1: youtu.be/IS-Z0Jo5cbw
Cinematography and Framing Part 2: youtu.be/YTbZtP4_SbU
Cinematography and Framing Part 3: youtu.be/lKQDLf-Nt6c