Filmmakers Academy – Camera Movement

14 Lessons | 1.5 hours of instructional videos

• Camera Movement is designed to deliver energy and emotion to your storytelling vision! Learn about camera placement for lighting, blocking, matching, and transition shots. Through a variety of in-depth tutorials and practical techniques, Shane Hurlbut, ASC helps you understand the how, why, and when of camera movement.
• It often takes a team to move the camera in a way that creates, for example, foreshadowing or a reveal. Go behind the scenes for a closer look at the equipment and judgment Shane and his team use for mounting cameras while using dollies, cranes, drones, and the MoVi.
• Shane demonstrates blocking, coverage, continuity, transitions, seamless shots, POV shots, camera placement, and lighting for movement. 
• Understanding motivation and using camera motion as a tool in storytelling is very powerful.
• Camera Dynamics was constructed in a way to give you an understanding of the use of movement and how it evokes and supports character emotion. As the course progresses, we take a deeper look at the tools Shane applied for the motivation behind camera movement, followed by a detailed analysis of how he used camera dynamics in many of his films.

Module 1 — Cinematic Techniques

• How To Plan, Plot, and Execute One-Shot Sequences: Fathers and Daughters Part 1
• How To Block and Light for Three Cameras: Fathers and Daughters Part 1
• How To Block and Light for Three Cameras: Fathers and Daughters Part 2
• How To Light for Three Cameras: Part 1
• How To Light for Three Cameras: Part 2
• Light For Specific Camera Blocking: Master To Close Up
• First Person POV: Mountain Dew

Module 2 — Camera Movement

• Why How and When to Move the Camera
• Camera Motion: MoVi
• Camera Motion: Dolly
• How To Use a Crane to Educate Your Audience
• What Handheld Camera Tells an Audience: Fathers and Daughters
• How To Plan Plot and Execute One-Shot Sequences: Fathers and Daughters Part 2
• How To Achieve the Commercial Director’s Vision