Research into cinematography Miss Miller

Cinematography

Cinematogophy is The art of movie photography and camera angles including both the shooting and development of the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnq_3jQa2VI

I chose to analyse the camera angles in 'The devil inside' because it has many different shots which show the audience alot about the characters.

A high angle shot is used in this clip to show the audience the room and whats in it. The working man's uniform shows us that Maria is in a mental institution which is mysterious and makes the audience curious of why she is there. Also the high angle shot could represent a security camera watching Maria in case she does anything bad, this makes the audience see her as very sinister which is conventional to a thriller movie. (0-1 seconds in the clip)

A zoom-in camera angle is used to show us Maria's face and more specifically her eyes, the focus on her eyes is used because she is looking at something or someone else who we cannot see who could be a demon or ghost which are conventional to thriller movies. This angle makes the audience feel scared because of the eeriness of Maria's character especially from this angle, and also they may feel intrugued to see what she is looking at. (3-6 seconds in the clip)

An extreme close-up is used is ued to show Maria's arm which has cuts on it. This creates a sense of mystery again, as of why she has cut herself. The extreme close up makes her arm cover the whole shot which looks very gory and strange which are conventional themes to a thriller movie. (16-19 seconds in the clip)

A close-up shot is used on Maria's face to create mystery and suspision. The shot shoes us her cut lip, messy hair and scary red eyes which scares the audience because she looks so sinister and possibly corpse like. This makes the audience wonder how and why this has happened to her and curious of the whole plot of the rest of the movie which many thriller films do. (23-24 seconds in the clip)

A handheld camera movement is used to put us in the daughters point of view, this is used to represent the shaking of the daughter due to her horror of seeing her mothers arm. The fear and terror from the daughter is passed on to the audience who share her feelings because of this camera movement which involves the audience, this is again conventional to thriller movies. (30-34 seconds in the clip)