Understanding basic camera shot psychology

When telling your story you need your audience to respond to your characters in a fitting way, and to aid this there is a psychology to the shots we select for our scene. Today Tom talks about camera shot psychology and how it can be used to make your scenes better.

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[zuberowy]

the necessary knowledge in a nutshell, thanks!

[epicsupreme]

Thanks for the walk through. Great for those of us who didn't get into film school :)

[TheNewton]

To build further consider this the psychology of shot *types* which then moves you into philosophy of shot *composition*. For example notice how almost all the demos clips have the subject centered but changing this can give different subtext (1:25 versus 1:07 even if you removed the trees or the nukes).
It may feel natural to center things in frame to remove empty visuals, or to balance symmetrically, but whitespace is a character too.
A great movie that plays with unbalanced emptiness is The Kings Speech.

[elijahirizarry]

"You need THE EXTREME CLOSE UP!" Lol XD

[bbrunorocha]

great tips with beautiful demonstration, thanks !

[catseye]

thanks for showing all the Cliché's I need to avoid