What effects do the movements of a camera have on the viewer?
Camera movement emphasizes emotion in viewers, and different camera movements create or portray different emotions. A crane down shot portrays the feeling of being dropped into the scene, or falling into a character's world. A crane up shot, however, makes us feeling as though the character is small, or an obstacle that said character must overcome is large. When a camera moves from a very high angle to a very low angle, it creates fear, by portraying the character as strong or opposing. This gives us a feeling of authority. On the other hand, handheld camera movement, which is both shaky and unsettling, creates the feeling of uneasiness, or danger. It makes us feel very strange and dangerous. It can feel both edgy and stressful. A quick pan can change a scene's emotional direction alomost immediately. This is because it reveals something, usually dangerous, that a character will have to overcome. A quick push in creates the feeling of shock, or surprise. A slow dolly in creates tension and intamacy with the character. This character-intamacy either creates a sense of discomfort between view and character, or a sense of shared emotion with the two. On the contrary, a slow dolly out portrays the character feeling lost or abandoned. This causes the viwer to feel empathy towards the character. A dolly across either reveals action, or change the scene's emotinal direction. A smooth glidecam shot creates an epic, almost dreamlike feeling of a ballet, or a dance. A glidecam 360 reveal goves the feeling of calm before the storm. The zolly creates an out of body feeling. In conclusion, different camera movements emphasize and create different emotions for viewers.
