Creating Motivation

Shot motivation is when one shot motivates another shot, action in one shot can imply another kind of action in a subsequent shot or call for it or demands it. when a scene of action demands some sort of response it will drive the narrative forward. Film makers usually agree on the point that all shots whether static or moving should be motivated. An example of creating motivation would be a character looking at something or someone in a particular way, then that shot is cut to the next one of what the character is looking at. This helps us to understand why they were looking at the person/object in the way they are and we get a feeling of the purpose as to why the object or person was significant to the character in the previous shot.