Jose’s Mediastudy Blog

Blog 2: Camera Shots and Angles Introduction: In this blog I will be analyzing and providing examples for five popular camera shots and angles.  The five camera angles I will be discussing are: Low angles, Medium Close Ups, Extreme Wide Shots, Close Ups, and Medium Shots.   Low Angle;  Breaking Bad (2008) (Timestamp 1:13 - 1:40) In this scene, Walter White enacts his plan to get revenge on Tuco for beating up Jesse Pinkman.  The shot begins with Walter being framed in the middle of a Low Angle Shot. This low angle makes Walter feel larger in the scene, making him feel powerful and important, cluing in the audience to his intentions. Then the camera proceeds to tilt downwards, with Walter reaching towards the viewer. These camera movements are juxtaposed with a quick shot of Tuco using a high angle shot, making him smaller in the frame to emphasize Walter's power over him. After a brief pause, Walter throws the fake meth onto the floor causing a massive explosion....

 Jose's Media Study Blog 1 Question: Who Are You? Who am I? My name is Jose Diaz; I play videogames, draw, and I generally enjoy being creative. I also occasionally make videos for YouTube. Although I am not exceptionally good at any of those, I enjoy the process of making art. Besides that I also like spending time with family and friends. I also like spending time with my cat, Tom. (I don't know if he likes spending time with me.) Question: Why are you taking this class and what do you hope to learn? I'm taking this class because I signed up for culinary class, but they were full so I got my second option, which was  Media Studies. Now that I'm in the class I hope to learn the terminology and processes that go behind film production in detail. In reality I know very little about professional film production and would like to know more. In my opinion, film is probably one of, if not, the most interesting art mediums. That's why even though I didn't initially me...