"Camera angles makes a Mountain Climbing Scene more Inspiring & Energetic."
You might have saw in movies that a Hero climbs up the mountain with overcoming so many rough terrains and difficulties. As we know, mountain climbing is not a kid’s work and you need to have a good stamina & strength to pull yourself upward.
When we see this kind of scenes in movie or in a sports channel, we feel as if we can climb high like that inspiring climber. That’s the magic of the cubic box. An adventurous TV show passes a huge amount of positive energy to the viewer to feel the situation and those feelable situations are the creation of a videographer.
If you’ve a spare time, once visit to a mountain climbing spot for a live view of it. And after reaching to the spot, you’ll find that the climbers are rising high toward the peak. Wait for minutes & find them getting smaller & smaller as they go up. That actually happens due to one point perspective. So, leave it… we’re not talking about perspective right now, we’re actually talking about viewing climbers’ climbing. I’m sure won’t get that much energy viewing them from a below angle for a minute or two. Now you climb the mountain (do foot walking, you’re not a climber) and from the top of the peak look downward and you’ll again find climbers’ climbing upward. It’s really fun watching them climbing toward you but as the time will pass, you’ll again feel bore with the same angle of viewing. Because your eyeball needs some new angles to enjoy the scene.
Due to lack of new independent angle to view the climbers, the live viewing experience really sucks for the viewers. Naked eye creates limitation and videographers overcome those. They make the situation quite energetic & interesting with multiple angle scenes.
To store the situation inside the square box, the videographer uses multiple angles. Take the example of the above image where we can see a climber climbing. What you can see here? Isn’t it telling a story? .. ya, it’s telling a story. A 20 seconds video is enough to tell a story & make a situation visible.
These above images are the screenshots of a video clip where I found a climber struggling to climb. Let’s observe the scenes carefully…
See the first scene where the camera captured the climber from a distance to give an overview of what he’s actually doing. The second scene shows the hands which depicts the climber’s tight grip over the rock. The 3rd & 4th Scene showing the climber from the top to capture the emotions & the facial expression of the him and also helps us to feel his struggle. 5th Scene is a climax where the climber slips one of his hand holding the grip with another and anytime he may fall – this creates a huge tension among the viewers. And the 6th scene is all about how he successfully overcame the situation & reached the top, making a happy ending. The hero in this story is the climber, if he’s happy at the end then the viewers are happy. If not then it’s a treasury.
I think now you understood how camera angles create a story with an interesting beginning & end.
Now let’s talk about creating your own mountain climbing scene..
Let’s assume that you don’t have money to go for multiple cameras to shoot a live mountain climbing. You also don’t have time to get multiple takes of climbing, I think even the climber won’t have energy to climb multiple times. So, what you gona do…?? The Answer is, make an illusion.
Camera is very good at making illusion.
For creating a mountain climbing illusion, choose a flat surface & decorate it like a mountain terrain including large boulder, stones, etc. Place your camera in front of it with the lens facing lower. Then stretch a long rope & ask the climber to pretend like he/she is climbing. Now you record him/her from different angle – take face of, the tight grip of hands, top view etc. At the end of the shot, review those and analyze whether it’s looking realistic or not. Do editing, keeping an angle for 4-5 seconds & skip to another. Also put a serious background music to match the situation. I’m sure you’ll find the output quite interesting & fun watching.
I hope you enjoyed this post about shooting a mountain climbing. Try it and let me know the result. You may comment below to ask questions or to share your views.
Image source: Videomaker Youtube Video.
You might have saw in movies that a Hero climbs up the mountain with overcoming so many rough terrains and difficulties. As we know, mountain climbing is not a kid’s work and you need to have a good stamina & strength to pull yourself upward.
When we see this kind of scenes in movie or in a sports channel, we feel as if we can climb high like that inspiring climber. That’s the magic of the cubic box. An adventurous TV show passes a huge amount of positive energy to the viewer to feel the situation and those feelable situations are the creation of a videographer.
If you’ve a spare time, once visit to a mountain climbing spot for a live view of it. And after reaching to the spot, you’ll find that the climbers are rising high toward the peak. Wait for minutes & find them getting smaller & smaller as they go up. That actually happens due to one point perspective. So, leave it… we’re not talking about perspective right now, we’re actually talking about viewing climbers’ climbing. I’m sure won’t get that much energy viewing them from a below angle for a minute or two. Now you climb the mountain (do foot walking, you’re not a climber) and from the top of the peak look downward and you’ll again find climbers’ climbing upward. It’s really fun watching them climbing toward you but as the time will pass, you’ll again feel bore with the same angle of viewing. Because your eyeball needs some new angles to enjoy the scene.
Due to lack of new independent angle to view the climbers, the live viewing experience really sucks for the viewers. Naked eye creates limitation and videographers overcome those. They make the situation quite energetic & interesting with multiple angle scenes.
To store the situation inside the square box, the videographer uses multiple angles. Take the example of the above image where we can see a climber climbing. What you can see here? Isn’t it telling a story? .. ya, it’s telling a story. A 20 seconds video is enough to tell a story & make a situation visible.
These above images are the screenshots of a video clip where I found a climber struggling to climb. Let’s observe the scenes carefully…
See the first scene where the camera captured the climber from a distance to give an overview of what he’s actually doing. The second scene shows the hands which depicts the climber’s tight grip over the rock. The 3rd & 4th Scene showing the climber from the top to capture the emotions & the facial expression of the him and also helps us to feel his struggle. 5th Scene is a climax where the climber slips one of his hand holding the grip with another and anytime he may fall – this creates a huge tension among the viewers. And the 6th scene is all about how he successfully overcame the situation & reached the top, making a happy ending. The hero in this story is the climber, if he’s happy at the end then the viewers are happy. If not then it’s a treasury.
I think now you understood how camera angles create a story with an interesting beginning & end.
Now let’s talk about creating your own mountain climbing scene..
Let’s assume that you don’t have money to go for multiple cameras to shoot a live mountain climbing. You also don’t have time to get multiple takes of climbing, I think even the climber won’t have energy to climb multiple times. So, what you gona do…?? The Answer is, make an illusion.
Camera is very good at making illusion.
For creating a mountain climbing illusion, choose a flat surface & decorate it like a mountain terrain including large boulder, stones, etc. Place your camera in front of it with the lens facing lower. Then stretch a long rope & ask the climber to pretend like he/she is climbing. Now you record him/her from different angle – take face of, the tight grip of hands, top view etc. At the end of the shot, review those and analyze whether it’s looking realistic or not. Do editing, keeping an angle for 4-5 seconds & skip to another. Also put a serious background music to match the situation. I’m sure you’ll find the output quite interesting & fun watching.
I hope you enjoyed this post about shooting a mountain climbing. Try it and let me know the result. You may comment below to ask questions or to share your views.
Image source: Videomaker Youtube Video.
