Camera Movement In Cinematic Space

The first article I am using as a reference in my research comes from Cine-Tracts, A Journal of Film, Communications, Culture and Politics. Written by film theorist David Bordwell, “Camera Movement and Cinematic Space” brings forth a close examination of the functions of camera movement in cinematic representation using a perceptual approach. He describes movement in cinematic space as a cinematic process, which seeks “systematically to station the viewer as subject before an idealized, objectified representation.” This is also the issue he uses in his approach, as this representation is used within contemporary film and is essential to understanding how viewers understand pictorial codes and depth within camera movement that explores this …show more content…
Experiments determined that the Steadicam initiated the strongest activation in the viewer 's motor cortex, which is necessary to stimulation of virtual presence of the viewer within the film through the capacity of the camera. Through the study and experimental trials, Gallese and Guerra come to the conclusion that “the relational nature of film style and cinematic intersubjectivity can be usefully investigated by focusing on viewers ' motor cognition implied by film techniques” (Gallese, Guerra 2014). The research conducted with neuroscience allows for study of action-perception links, as presented in this …show more content…
There are four basic camera movements; subject movmement within the projected image, movement between projected images called editing, the visual movement from a fixed position which is called the 'zoom ', and lastly the bodily motion of the camera itself. “The camera 's movement and its implicated presence as the subject of that movement are usually disregarded in favor of our attending (as the camera itself does) to that which the camera moves towards or away from, or alongside or around, to the object of its movement” (Sobchack,