More than five years ago I created a series of videos for my students to learn the language of camera at http://camera.lgrace.com. I was teaching a scriptwriting for games course and a scriptwriting for digital film course. I wanted single, easy to browse examples of common shots and transitions for them to use as a reference. I uploaded a little over half of the 30+ videos to YouTube today.
Each video provides, a quick simple animation that demonstrates a particular camera shot or transition. I hope these help the next budding set of scriptwriters and animators or perhaps they are useful for test. Sorry for the low quality images, but these are old renders. The work was done in a few days.
The site contains a basic glossary:
http://camera.lgrace.com/Language_Guide.htm
and a shot guide:
http://camera.lgrace.com/Shot_Guide.htm
Each of the videos is listed below:
Crane Down, Move Toward: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzrq8sMEuPk
Crane Up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65tgFnZZ0T8
Crane Up, Move Away: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2PYVRLmh3s
Degree Dolly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jywcldiFGg
Standard Dolly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxlKzUsBqKk
Follow Shot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqKal8uetjo
Pan Left: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z678_-H6sNM
Pull Back Reveal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2rrJP7_fAA
Rise Up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K1-09Q2Wsw
Search Shot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCtLF6FH9VI
Zoom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc2v9LODaa4
Spin Look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiQVy59cZQ4
Reverse Angle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnU_xmC213I
