For this class we got asked about what we are researching (our topic title) and give a short explanation of this research.
For my research I decided I want to research different camera perspectives, as for a title I have until now: How does camera perspective influence our view on a character/scene. This is so far the first question I came up with and could still shift a bit into shape to get to the right point.
This idea is linked to what I am doing for my personal project now. I am intrigued by scenes that will view either an overpowering environment or just give you an overwhelming feeling. When I was thinking about my personal project I thought about when 1 person sits in a football stadium full of people cheering, this person may feel small compared to the size of the scene. For my personal project, I want to redesign this feeling by creating a temple enormous to scale compared to a person standing in front of it.
Coming back to my topic for my thesis proposal The different in scale/power can be viewed in a movie by changing the perspective of the viewer. When you lay the camera low and point toward the actor, the actor will show as more powerful as to where when you point the camera down on the actor it will feel inferior. Going from this point of view I will do my research in different areas. for example, research about the history on cinema and animation and their point of view process I could link this to Multiplane cameras that Disney used for the first time in 1957 to how cinematography is used today.
Keywords
Perspective, cinematography, point of view, narrated, camera lens, camera angle
Sources
Branigan, E. (n.d.). Point of view in the cinema. [online] De Gruyter Mouton. Available at: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110817591/html [Accessed 1 May 2023].
[This source will provide me with information about the different points of view that I have talked about in the small text above this source]
Fielding, R. (2013). Techniques of Special Effects of Cinematography. [online] Google Books. CRC Press. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=nl&lr=&id=Dgd6AgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=cinematography&ots=8h4FjjDhAS&sig=6vOn0eTixei3jN914vbeC20e6x0&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=cinematography&f=false [Accessed 1 May 2023].
[This will give me further information on different effects a cinematographer can have in general]
Paik, J. and Kim, C. (2013). Research on Disney’s 3D Animation ‘s Style, Layout Pipeline, and Camera Capture System. Journal of Korea Multimedia Society, 16(11), pp.1348–1356. doi:https://doi.org/10.9717/kmms.2013.16.11.1348.
[This will give me information on where the different perspectives started in the history on animations and further on]