Today´s Q: How does camera movement affect meaning?

Michael Bay uses a lot of angles but he uses low camera angle the most to show the importance of the main character. He tries to make us the idea of whats happening, the whole style of men, guns and explotions. A typically shot of michael bay is the low camera angle and long shot where the main character is shown and the explotions are behind them such as in Bad Boys, Transformers. Their scenes are short and edited every second, they go fast to show the action. The camera is constantly rotating and the use of panning too, that follows the character.

Alfonso Cuarón uses different camera shots that make the scene more real, his shots are long to make it more realistic. His style is more the real time. He usually uses medium shot and over the shoulder shot. That doesn’t tell whats happening so that the audience figure it out. His shots are fluid almost all the time panning, such as in Children of men.