When you animate, your motions create a mood, and without
the proper camera angles, your work will not be as powerful.
To understand this better, it may help to think about some of your favorite movie directors,
and the way they use camera placement to aid their storytelling. Quentin Tarantino
movies, for instance, often include a shot framed with the camera looking out from the
inside of a car trunk. Imagine how different one of those scenes would feel if it were shot
from a long side view instead, or from overhead, or from the perspective of another character.
Or think of the famous opening scene of Citizen Kane, and how the intimacy of the
dying word ???Rosebud??? might have changed if it were delivered in a wide shot of Kane??™s
bedroom instead of a closeup on his whispering lips.
That said, don??™t worry about becoming the next Welles or Hitchcock. Experiment!
Practice setting up different types of shots. Load some of the scenes from your LightWave
directory that installed when you loaded the program. Study the camera angles used there
and try creating your own.Use reference books from real-world situations, mimic the cinematography
in movies, and most importantly, experiment.
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