Cinema: the language of the shot

How a film tells a story without words: shots, camera movements, angles, editing and sound, with a four-shot classroom short film and a storyboard exercise.

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Cover of the presentation “Cinema: the language of the shot”

What’s inside

  1. The language of the shot
  2. What a film has
  3. The basic shots
  4. Camera movements
  5. Angles that say something
  6. Editing creates meaning
  7. Sound weighs more than it seems
  8. Our short film in four shots
  9. Your storyboard

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