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One point Perspective
I’m doing a student film (junior in college) and there’s a door at the bottom of a staircase that is increasingly foreboding to the main character who is irrationally afraid to open it.
I want the shot of that door from the top of the staircase to have that one-point perspective effect where the staircase looks longer than what it actually is and the door is centered in the frame so the viewer’s eyes are drawn to it – like what Kubrick uses in “The Shining” and most of his movies.
I don’t have a million dollar lens and I cant go out and buy one . My camera I’m using is a Sony XD . I’m not a cinematographer so I’m not sure if or how I could change the settings to get that perspective or if i even need to? Maybe its all about how you center the door in the frame ?
Or can you change the perspective in post? I have Adobe CC so could I do this in AE or Premiere?
Any help would be awesome 🙂
ZombieCat
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4 Replies
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The short answer is, at your skill level it might be easier to achieve this effect on set and not in post.
What you’re trying to do is called a “dolly zoom” in which the camera moves forward/backward while the zoom and focus is pulled.
Here’s a link explaining it and a bit of a how-to
https://nofilmschool.com/2014/01/everything-need-know-dolly-zoom
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Love it! Thank you, that’s very helpful! I was expecting it to be much harder than that:-P
ZombieCat
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Also sometimes called a “Spielberg zoom” although he was certainly not the first to utilize it.
System:
Dell Precision T7600 (x2)
Win 7 64-bit
32GB RAM
Adobe CC 2015.02 (as of 6/2016)
256GB SSD system drive
4 internal media drives RAID 5
Typically cutting short form from HD MP4 and P2 MXF. -
Oh, it IS much harder than that. Syncing the focus, zoom, and camera movement will have you tearing your hair out. As long as your camera is on a stable dolly, you might have a chance. Forget doing it handheld, though!
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