Week 10 - Research into Camera Shooting Skills

MASTER SHOTS: 100 ADVANCED
CAMERA TECHNIQUES by CHRISTOPHER KENWORTHY



This is a very useful book which focuses on the techniques to achieve a high quality of composition. It contain texts and photos to help reader to comprehend/ understand the shots.

Because my animation is an action genre which will involve quite a lot of fight scenes. In the book, there is a specific section for the use of camera for fighting scenes, for example, my animation will have a Speed Punch scene, and the 2nd picture on the right ( scanned from the book) illustrate how a speed punch should be shown in order to straighten it's power and speed. Another example, one of my character will be knocked down, therefore, i created this thumbnail sketches referring the techniques suggested from the book.

Furthermore, i would like to draw viewers attention on the animation so having some
shots such as Dramatic Shift and Directing Attention is needed. I have also try to apply Travel with Subject technique to only focus on my main character during the fight.

Although my film is not live action but i think the skills and techniques are usable for animation as well.