Post 17 - Media Language - Camera

Camera shot, sizes and angles convey the way in which a film is shown to the audience, a close up of a face emphasis' emotion and thus creates an emotional response from the audience, whilst wide angles long shots convey isolation of a character or location, possibly showing the audience physically how a character is feeling.

For this post I have looked as the short German drama film 'Awakening (Ontwaking)'.

One of the opening shots to the film introduces the audience to the main character, the medium close up of the girl's face, in the left center of the frame, instantly connects to the audience. The shot also contains the character laying horizontally across it, as the character begins to move about, this results in part of her face being out of frame, this to me break the flow of the shot, breaking the connection to the audience. 
In relation to our film, I want to make sure that this doesn't happen with close up shots.

There is a wide shot repeatedly used during the film, this shot is a key camera feature of the film. It explains to the audience partly why the mother and father are concerned when the protagonist mentions the grandmother. The separation between the mother and grandmother appears further apart than in other shots in the film, conveying to the audience early on that there is a greater separation between the two. Something I feel we could use for our character and other people when he's walking in the town scene.

I also looked at the film 'True Skin', to look at how using canted angles would be a feature we could use in our film. The film contains a lot of shots which are just off center or off balance, this adds to the quick pace and jittery editing of the film, I think we could use this idea in our film as our character starts to break down.