How do proxemic patterns relate to the various types shots in film and their distance ranges, and what effect do they have on the viewer?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. In terms of psychological effect, the various shots tend to suggest physical distances.
2. Usually, filmmakers have a number of options concerning what kind of shot to use to convey the action of a scene. What determines their choice is the emotional impact of each of the different proxemic ranges.
3. Each proxemic pattern has an approximate camera equivalent. The intimate distances, for example, can be likened to the close up. The personal distance is approximately a medium shot. The social distances correspond to the full shot ranges. And the public distances are roughly within the long and extreme long shot ranges.
4. In general, the greater the distance between the camera and the subject, the more emotionally neutral we remain. Conversely, the closer we are to a character, the more we feel that we’re in proximity with him and hence the greater our emotional involvement.
5. “Long shot for comedy, close-up for tragedy” was one of Charles Chaplin’s most famous pronouncements. The proxemic principles are sound, for when we are close to an action—a person slipping on a banana peel, for example—it’s seldom funny, because we are concerned for the person’s safety. If we see the same event from a greater distance, however, it often strikes us as comical.