In the second lecture of this course, we learned about key aspects of producing good movies and some of the techniques that are required for this, such as different shot sizes and why we need them. He started talking about different genres such as drama, comedy, action, horror, family and thriller. These are all traditional genres, but lately we have been introduced to Romance Comedy in movies such as Killers
and Knight & Day
Since this is a moving cycle it is important for the industry to know what comes next. It's said that Family/Horror will be introduced in the cinema over the next 5 years.
Moving on, we learned about the relevance of different shot sizes in television and on the big screen. You have a large range of shot sizes, that are used for different reasons such as emphasis, emotion, emersion and establishment in the world of media. VLS/WS (Very long shot/Wide Shot), LS (Long Shot), MS (Mid Shot) and CU (Close Up) are a few examples of shot sizes. If we put these sizes into words explaining their use, we can say for example that the "WHO?" is answered by a close up shot, showing the person in detail. The "WHAT" is a mid shot where your character performs an action, and to answer the "WHEN" question you can use a Wide Shot or a Close Up to try capture time.
In addition, you have Headroom and Talking Room. The placement of a characters head in a shot is important, because you don't want it for example to be too far out on either sides or too far down in the shot. Using Talking Room you proportion the subject and create space between the character and the screen shot.
Finally, to have the best shot possible you should divide the screen into a 3 by 3 grid, and your characters head should be placed somewhere around the middle ones.
This is called the Rule of third.
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