Adding Depth To Make More Dynamic Shots

     When you think about it, film is a 2d medium, depth is very important to portray when you are recording. Depth immerses the audience and makes them feel like there is actual 3d space they are experiencing. Techniques that assist depth are High Contrast Lighting, Focus, Perspective, Parallax, and Occlusion. High contrast lighting creates a scene that doesn't look flat. Focus gives an illusion of depth because naturally things are blurry when we focus on something further away.
     Perspective is extremely important to film because different angles establish dominance or give an audience interest.  Perspective is important to depth because decreasing or increasing patterns tricks your eye to see more depth. Parallax is not only common in movies but in animation as well. Parallax is when objects at different distances move at different speeds relative to the camera to show how far away an object is.  Finally occlusion is a very useful technique in which things closer to our eyes block out objects behind it.

     I never knew how much thought has to be put into a film to make it actually look three dimensional! Next year in video I think I will make it one of my objectives to create really good depth. Additionally whats nice is that these don't even need to be applied directly to film, it is important to apply this to animation, especially when you are storyboarding, good angles and perspective is everything. Star Wars has a lot of depth in the fight scenes, they often use railings and pillars for parallax and to create patterns for perspective.