RTV-3001 Lecture Notes - Spring 2014 Lecture 11 - Intensify, Intensify
Document Summary
Refers to placing people and their movements primarily along the z axis toward and away from the camera. Good directors who capture the audience attention and takes them into the world of the film stage their scenes along the z-axis. Bad directors withno visual or dramatic sensitivity, line up their actors along the x axis and shoot them in a linear movement. In a tv studio production where three cameras are the norm, you can still block a scene on the z axis. Graphication: the process of inserting letters and lines or secondary frames on a tv scene.
