Filmmakers use a variety of techniques to make their films captivating to the viewers. Movie scene transition techniques include the dissolve, the wipe, the jump cut, and the fade. Camera shot and angle techniques used by filmmakers are low, high, and level camera angles, pan, p.o.v, close up, and long shot. All of those filmmaking techniques are utilized throughout the Lost Names’, “An Empire for Rubber Balls” storyboard and work together to create a special meaning for what the viewer sees on screen. Filmmakers also use many types of scene transitions to make a movie run smoothly. First, there is the jump cut. A jump cut is a rapid, jerky transition from one frame to the next. I used a jump cut for a transition from window four to
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The narrator’s instructions from his teacher were to go around his assigned area and collect everybody’s rubber rubber balls. The high camera angle allows the viewers to see how vast the narrator’s assigned area was and how cruel the Japanese teachers were to make them cover that whole area on foot. The same camera angle technique was used in window nine of the storyboard. This is the part of the story where the character is stumbling his way down to the church so he can get in the play. The narrator is weak and the high camera angle makes him look like it. The camera angle makes him look like a worthless, weak ant on the ground. A level camera angle would be best used in window seven of the storyboard. I used a level camera angle in this window to show that even though the inspector was beating the narrator, the narrator was still equal to the inspector, if not better, because the inspector might feel powerful beating up a little kid, but the narrator is stronger because he could take the beating. Lastly, there is the low camera angle. This type of filmmaking technique is used to make the subject look strong and important. I used the low camera angle shot in window ten. It was used to show that the narrator was strong, and he was because even after two adults practically beat the life out
The narrator’s instructions from his teacher were to go around his assigned area and collect everybody’s rubber rubber balls. The high camera angle allows the viewers to see how vast the narrator’s assigned area was and how cruel the Japanese teachers were to make them cover that whole area on foot. The same camera angle technique was used in window nine of the storyboard. This is the part of the story where the character is stumbling his way down to the church so he can get in the play. The narrator is weak and the high camera angle makes him look like it. The camera angle makes him look like a worthless, weak ant on the ground. A level camera angle would be best used in window seven of the storyboard. I used a level camera angle in this window to show that even though the inspector was beating the narrator, the narrator was still equal to the inspector, if not better, because the inspector might feel powerful beating up a little kid, but the narrator is stronger because he could take the beating. Lastly, there is the low camera angle. This type of filmmaking technique is used to make the subject look strong and important. I used the low camera angle shot in window ten. It was used to show that the narrator was strong, and he was because even after two adults practically beat the life out