The opening sequence to 'Forest Gump'
As the feather falls it reveals the town from a long shot. The camera continues to follow the feather as it floats to the ground, almost completing a 180 degree turn of the camera.
There in the top left hand corner of the screen, the main character is slightly revealed, but not brought to our attention, yet. This may not be an actual camera technique however, it introduces the character with out us realising.
The shot where the camera is close up to the feather resting on the trainers, gives the viewers their first insight into the main character. It's a good shot as the feather has fallen from the sky and has floated down to the character in order to bring him onto our screens. This is a much more interesting way of introducing a character, rather than just filming them straight away.
Next the camera tilts up, giving a toe to head shot of 'Forrest', moving to just a simple mid shot of the character, revealing his identity as he gazes at the feather.
This looks so simple to redo as the location would be easy to copy, a park bench with some greenery around and the camera movements would be easy also.
The Camera still uses a mid shot of 'Forrest' keeping him in focus as his eyes wonder. The camera keeps the feather in shot the entire time as he opens his case and delicately place the feather inside his book.
Keeping a mid shot of his hand movement until it zooms out as the bus sweeps across the screen, blocking our vision of 'Forest', for a moment until he reappears at the back end. The camera still zoomed out shows a long shot of the location, 'Forest' and the bus.