Chapter 2: Things I Learned

    This chapter started with talking about cinematic language and how to watch a movie and look for meaningful angles, shots, or editing. Movie directors and producers create movies with all this in mind, but they don't want the audience to know. This makes things like transitions and camera angle shifts invisible to the audience. Things like low angle or high angle shots are meant to make the audience feel a certain way. After reading about this, I began noticing the camera angles more in movies and television. For example, in a show like Modern Family, the camera angle shifts aren't necessarily as dramatic as a movie, but they do use zooms to make you feel more connected to the characters.

   

    I recently watched an interactive show where you could choose different outcomes for the characters and I feel like this chapter really resonated with me while I was watching it. I was thinking about how many different scenes they would have to film so that there could be several options for the audience to choose from. The switch to each scene was pretty seamless, but I noticed the directors used cutting on action. Whenever you would choose an answer, it would zoom in on the dinner they were eating or the paper they were writing so they could easily switch to the next scene without it being a noticeable cut. It's cool getting to learn about the different transitions and begin to notice cinematic language while watching movies or TV.