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Course: Pixar in a Box > Unit 6
Lesson 1: How virtual cameras workStorytelling with camera
How are lens choice, camera movement, and depth of field used to increase artistic impact of Pixar films? Depth of field creates a feeling of love, camera movement shows the difference between perfect and real worlds, and focus adds imperfection to real-world scenes. When considering camera focus, we sometimes get things "wrong" on purpose to make real world scenes feel more authentic and imperfect.
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this is pretty awesome could i do this as a job(5 votes)
yes! jobs like this are hard to get but it is possible. most people start out with just making youtube videos to put them self out into the world just like "hey im here look what i can do!" but then you can get tips from people who watch and try what they say it may or may not help but once you feel like you want to take it to the next step look out for jobs in the field that you are looking at show them what you can do! you never fail unless you don't try. if they turn you down don't give up try a different place. if they tell you that you missing something take their advice try to do whatever it is . some times it won't work with your style of work and you have to keep looking untill you find what you are looking for.(5 votes)
- Since all of the Pixar creations are done on the computer does it tent to be hard to keep the camera and characters moving?(3 votes)
proprably they are able to set the camera to do a specific path during the frames(0 votes)
At2:34, when Riley tripped, was that there the focus was purposely adjusted so that Riley was out of focus and everything else was in focus?(2 votes)
I think so because they were truing to get across how no one really cared they just continued playing.(1 vote)
the blue umbrella short film clip was so cute! does anyone have a link to the full clip?(2 votes)
what was that umbrella movie(2 votes)
The title A.K.A. name is the Blue Umbrella.(1 vote)
at :24 i loved how they put in the blue umbrella(1 vote)
was it just my computer or was there like 5 seconds at the end just in black?(1 vote)- How do you tells stories with the camera?(1 vote)
at5:57doexs anybody know the of the happy music 🎶 🎵 🎹 🎷 🎻 🎺 🎼 🎧(1 vote)
What if you want to focus on a image thats moving pretty fast, but make the background blurry. how would you be able to focus on the moving object?(1 vote)
You'd make the camera move in time with the objects.(1 vote)
2:34Video transcript
- You remember Patrick from
the first video in this lesson? I've invited him here to talk
a little bit about camera use. - Cheese! - Can you tell us a little bit about how you use depth of
field in storytelling? - So, the one that has depth of view is part of the storytelling
is a short film that I worked on called The Blue Umbrella. When the director, Saschka,
approached me about doing the cinematography, he wants
the audience to feel like they are kinda watching
this love story unfold, in front of their eyes. So the idea was to try
to use a longer lens so that there's a distance between the camera to the subject. It's like when you're in love, you know? You just don't look at anything else. You kinda concentrate on
the person in front of you. And that's kind of the
feeling we're trying to get. (happy music) - In addition to all the
other choices you make, you could also choose to move the camera during a shot. Do you ever use that to help tell a story? - Oh, yeah, camera
movement is very important. For Inside Out, camera
movement is a big part of the camera structure of
how the inside world works and the outside world works. The inside world is a perfect world? It's imaginative. So all the camera movement
is very mechanical, it's very deliberate. Whenever it's moving you can
kinda predict where it's going. So everything is very formal. On the outside world, on the
other hand, is more organic, depending on the moments. So how we move the camera
is very, very important. - And you're also focusing
just like with a real camera to make sure the right
things are in focus. Do you ever use focus as
a way of telling a story? Or the way you focus? - Yes, actually on Inside
Out, we used focus to try to add to the imperfection of
the real world, Riley's world. Because Riley's world is
based on a real location, San Francisco, Minnesota. We want the camera, it just feels natural that the camera should feel real. And imperfection is
part of the real world. And something about Pixar's focus is that everything is always so perfect, because we're inside a computer. So we purposefully, in act two and act three especially, when the cameraman is
trying to follow an action, we purposefully miss some of
the focus and then refocus. It's just some of the subtlety we're trying to do to try
to get to the imperfection. It's something that hopefully
the audience can feel but not something that
they can just say oh, yeah, I can see what they did. - Thanks, this is fascinating,
thanks for coming by. - Well, thank you for having me, Adam.