Research into moving shots

(Done by Petr Zheltov from my group)
While thinking about the way we would want our thriller to look we understood that we want it to be very smooth and literally flow like the song which we would have in the background. This could be achieved by using moving shots, but moving shots are quite hard to film, so we looked through many films and information in order to understand how to film moving shots correctly.


Here I took 3 movies as examples of moving shots.
The first one is Inception and here a robot and lots of equipment was used to film the moving shot. As a result you can see a perfect moving shot which makes the scene look very smooth and appealing.










The second clip is the opening title sequence of the movie Touch of Evil. This is the opening shot of the movie and it was filmed as one moving shot which looks absolutely amazing. Here also lots of equipment was used to make the shot more stable, for example a crane was used to capture the shot from the height.










This is also a video from a movie by the name of Boogie Nights. You can see how pleasing to the eye is this opening title sequence because of the moving shot which just makes everything flow and makes your mind flow into the movie and concentrate on the plot. This is what we want to achieve.

We had some ideas of how to film perfect moving shots without shacking the camera at all, but we understood that we do not have enough space in the studio, so would just have take the camera into our hands and move around. Nevertheless we learnt how to move around with the camera correctly in order to get good shots. At the end of the day our video can and should be a bit rough and shaky because we have young actors who do not think a lot and do all sorts of stupid things. This can be also represented in the camera movement in order to sell this idea, but the mixture of moving shots and a bit of rough/ shaky bits can be just perfect.