Tomb Raider (2013) Camera Analysis 09 Cliffside Village

A camera beat chart and additional analysis for the Cliffside Village mission.
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Each minute of the Cliffside Village mission, broken down into the camera types found within it (see analysis below for details)

This is a short beat with a forced linear progression, so the use of follow cameras is greatly diminished. A few times during this analysis I had to play the section over again to figure out if I actually had full control of the camera. The player camera is often on rails in this mission, even if it appears to be the normal follow camera. When the rail camera is active, pushing left on the control stick rotates the camera around it's own origin to face left instead of rotating around the player origin to put it's position to the left of the player's screen position.

Follow and Static-facing are used more than NIS

Exotic cameras refer to the zipline and balance cameras as well as custom or rarely used cameras
Static-facing cameras are  better versions of the industry standard static cameras. Includes camera pulls and shots with movement/rotation on one axis
NIS include transitions and any unresponsive shots
Follow cameras are driven by mouse or stick input
Climbing cameras support the climbing features

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