Creating the right mood through video and audio is essential to producing a great film. Imagine you're in the sky and you see a man wearing an all black jumpsuit jump out of the plane and deploy his parachute. But something's wrong... There is a romantic song playing. This is a GREAT example of terrible mood setting. Setting the correct audio is just as important as how quick your cuts are in your film. The viewer of the movie must feel the emotions shown on the screen and the easiest way to do that is through sound. Another way the director of a film can set a mood is to change the distance from the camera and the camera movement. If the camera is very far away from a classroom of people, then the director wants you to focus on the whole classroom, but if the camera is zoomed in to Mr. Bourgeois, then he is the subject of the shot. Camera movement is also a very crucial step to setting a mood. If a camera is sitting on a tripod panning the camera to follow Mr. B's walk across the classroom, it seems pretty normal but if the camera is shaking and moving from side to side, you know that something is up. Horror movies exploit camera movement very often. So, a more fitting sound for the airplane scene would be loud music with more drums or dramatic orchestra music.
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What most people probably know is that with the pen tool you can make straight lines. Later, we were taught that you can drag after clicking and holding to curve the line. Holding alt will reset the angle of your next line or curve. What most people probably don't know is that not resetting the angle can help you get smooth curves with more than one stroke. The pen tool analyzes the current angle and most of the time it's perfect to finish the curve you're tracing or make a perfect circle. Have you ever tried to start a new path from an existing path or anchor point? It's not possible right? If you click over an anchor point with pen tool, you will delete that anchor point and if you click over a path, it will just add an anchor point. By holding Shift while doing this you can override the default function and act as if there was no path.
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