Blog Post #3- Motivated Camera Movement

#1 - Insidious

 

     Around 1:10, the woman turns around and pauses for a couple of seconds. The camera starts to zoom into her face. The camera zooming is motivated because it sets up a moment of mystery. The audience is now wondering what she is looking at. The camera then reveals what the actor sees. It then turns back to her face and zooms in even more. The scene starts off normal and vague, that camera movement was really necessary at that time and effective because it adds mystery to the scene and recaptures the audience's attention in the bland moment. 

#2 - Shawshank Redemption

     In this clip, around 1:39, the camera starts to move upward from a eye level view of the prisoners to a very high, wide shot of them. That camera movement was motivated, because the director wanted to show the audience how the music captured the prisoners' attention. I also believe the director was effective with it, because he might have wanted to express how powerful the music was because the camera moved towards the speaker and the camera is looking down at the prisoners.

#3 - The Lord of the Rings

   

     This is a scene from Lord of the Rings. Around 3:52, a fly over technique is being used. It is a camera movement that flies above the scene, giving an aerial view. This fly over camera movement is effective and motivated because it reveals to the audience how the two opponents size up against each other and it also shows how the Rohirrims are charging toward the Orcs, in spite of the Orcs attacking them with bows and arrows. Again at 4:26, the fly over technique is being used to show the battle from an aerial view.