Psychology of camera

How to enhance feeling/emotion

Framing subjects
looking room and head room, giving emotion to the picture.

Creating expectation.

No looking room?

Space above the head?

excessive background?

excessive foreground?

Contrast subject with elements of frame

Boxing subject into the frame with elements.


Two subjects shot, reverse shot wide lens Long lens comparison
inside or outside the circle of communion:

Hand Held - uneasy, panic, stressful, urgency

Tripod - steadiness, calm, security, power


Movement
Dolly in/push in - highlights importance, revelations.

Dolly out/pull out - Leaving the scene, closure, isolation, distanciation.

Camera Height
Above subject disempowers talent.
Below subject empowers talent giving authority.

(Camera movement tutorial)

Shutter angle
Fast shutter - 90deg - crisp images - heightens sensors