Rabiger says that film works across culture because the way in which it is presented essentially emulates the way our minds work. Life itself, he claims, is the primary source for creativity and form. He draws parallels between natural action and elements of screen grammar as follows:
*Fixed Camera position:* The analogue to this is standing in one spot and looking around.
- *Brief shots* are like cursory glances used to orient ourselves.
- *Held Shots* are like long looks that we indulge in.
- *Close Shots* reproduce the sensation of taking a detailed focused look at something.
- *Wide Shots* emulate the way we look at things that are large, busy, or distant.
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**Moving Camera shot **
- set by motivations
- subject motivated: following a target or moving object
- search motivated: looking for a person or object
- Boredom motivated: reproduces natural human tendency for attention to wander
- Three phases
- starting composition: period before movement
- movement
- ending composition: period after movement
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*Camera movement from Static position*
- Pan: horizontal
- tilt: vertical
- Zoom
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*Traveling Camera Movements*
- Craning: Vertical movement
- Dollying, Tracking, or Trucking: Horizontal movement of camera through space
- Crab dollying: Moving sideways but tracking an object roughly perpendicular to axis of movement
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