How to handle a video camera - Basic Camera Movements

Have you ever use a video camera? have you ever shoot a video? may be atleast with a mobile camera.. or..professional video camera perhaps..?  How well did you shoot it? well.. do you know that every camera shot we take, can be divide into few basic camera shots..

In other words, we can say that every video shot has made from one of few basic camera shots.

 

 

Basic moving camera shots

• Pans
• Tilts
• Dolly
• Track
• Zoom
• Crane
• Hand-held
• Aerial

I'm explaining each shot type in details below.

Lines - fundamentals of photographic composition

We are living in a world which is filled with lines. outlines and wisps of clouds, silhouettes of  mountains, telephone lines stretching from pole to pole, and so on. Lines connect points to create shapes. Shapes have edges, and edges are themselves lines.

 Photo Credit : Alexander Pyatiletov

Lines and edges define the way we see, and they are fundamental to photographic composition.

Think about lines for a moment. Lines have a direction: they are horizontal, vertical or diagonal.