While shooting a film, the director of the film and the director of photography sometimes meet with the storyboard artist to illustrate the flow of shots that will best depict the story of the film. The video camera and its various camera angles along with some other things are what help see this through. Breaking down the shot list and figuring out which shot whether it's a close up, medium shot, wide shot, or crane shot will help tell the story best. On top of that, perspective, location, lighting, etc. will add to the look and feel of the story. Most people don't really pay attention to things like this, I know I didn't up until learning about all of these tools and techniques throughout my TV Production class in high school, but once I did that's all I've really paid attention to. An example of how perspective aids the look and feel of a story can be found in a scene from Spiderman. I never noticed how this helped the viewer see the transition from Peter Parker to Spiderman until I watched it recently. After he's bit by the spider he starts feeling stronger and his eye sight improves. The director of this film made sure you knew Peter didn't need glasses anymore by using this particular POV camera angle. Without this shot, when viewers noticed that Peter wasn't wearing his glasses anymore they would've been confused, but with it there's no confusion at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj7CXKwPfdc
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