We are back to play a bad trick on you! Yes we dare to quote Team Rocket in order to get this new article off to a good start. Let's get started slowly now that you are very familiar with today's subject of framing. This time we are approaching a shot that makes us see things in a big way: the close-up!
Théophile, our customer success manager, continues his lessons on Plan values with his legendary enthusiasm. Today, he focuses on this little je ne sais quoi - deep down we know it well - that you may not think you need but may be useful.
What's the point?
The closeup It's mainly trying to capture that something that makes a face, that emotion that only a camera can detect when it is close enough. It allows viewers to analyze feelings present in a simple expression of the gaze. Think of it like the touch.”Sentimental“of your movie. It embodies beauty as well as disgust, while revealing more than a few words.
In your videos, the closeup finds legitimacy for your interviews or during presentations of people during business expertise. Any viewer is able to become familiar with any type of speaker using a close-up. It exposes your speaker and allows you to generate a certain sympathy. It is also in these types of shots that we can still applaud the benefits of video: it generates feelings like Rimbaud Does it so well with his poems such as Sleeper of the valley.
However, it is not given to everyone to write as well as the poets and authors of the last centuries, having given France this reputation as a world cultural capital. Capturing a plan like this is much more affordable - particularly affordable even - if you follow the following tips to the letter.
How does it work?
A few tremors in this shot will not interfere with your frame as long as the face of your interlocutor remains distinguishable. Moreover, at EasyMovie we prefer the insecurity of movement offered by Grip than a shot that is too fixed on a tripod. A slight restlessness offers a slow evolution to a feeling of any kind. You are even advised to go from a close-up to a close-up for more fantasy. The emotion will only be stronger!
To do this, you can zoom in but we recommend that you do a Travelling : to move towards the face in question, therefore. Don't overdo it, The strength of this frame lies in its rarity. Too present, it could make your video disturbing. We recommend using it to support a statement or to capture the reaction of your speaker. It takes on importance when it is embedded between two close-ups. And, unless you are confident, avoid going from an extremely strict plan. wide to a tighter one like this one. The result can be very surprising.
You are now well informed about this close-up, we hope that you will be able to capture emotions such as Jean Renoir and his friends the filmmakers.
Besides that, we have good news but also bad news: you don't have any left more than one tutorial On the framing before you're fully aware of the plans that make up our favorite movies. It also means that we will only find one last time in two weeks for our last article. See you in two weeks, then.
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