Camera shots, camera angles, camera movement and composition.

Assignment 4

Camera Shots

• Establishing Shot• Wide shot• Long Shot• Mid/ medium shot• Close up shot• Extreme close up shot• Over the shoulder shot• Two shot • POV (Point Of View)

Establishing shot

A shot which has a range of distances wide/long of a place in a city or a shot of a place. This is usually used at the beginning of the scene to show the audience where it is taking place.

Wide shot

Wide shots are often used as establishing shots.

Long shot

Framing of a character or subject of their whole body

Mid/medium shotFraming of a subject or character or their torso (From the torso to the head or torso to legs

Close up shot A shot which frames a character or the subject of some particular part of their body or object.

Extreme close up

• A shot showing extreme detail of a part of body, face or object to give them more information detail about a character or objects.

POV (point of view)

• A view from the characters perspective.

Over the shoulder shot

• A shot taken from behind the characters shoulder.

Two shot

• Two characters interacting or conversing in a shot.

Camera Angles

• Low• High • Canted/Oblique

Low

• An angle that looks up to the character or object

High

• An angle that looks down from the character or object

Canted/oblique

• A shot to appear skewed or tilted

Camera Movement

• Pan• Tilt• Track• Zoom,• Reverse zoom• Dolly• Crane• Stedicam• Vertigo

Pan

• Camera pivots horizontally either left to right or right to left.

Tilt

• Camera moving vertically from top to bottom or bottom to top.

Track

• Camera moving side to side without a pivot to follow an object or character

Zoom

• Camera goes in towards an object or character ( speed of zoom can vary)

Reverse Zoom

• Camera goes out away an object or character.

Dolly

• A tripod with wheels

crane

• Dolly-shots-in-the-air, It can move up, down, left, right and swoop in on action or moving diagonally out.

Stedicam

• A smooth shot is taken when the operator moves quickly.

vertigo• Zooming in

and dolly out at the same time

Composition

• Balance - Symmetry- Asymmetry- Rule Of Thirds- Depth of field- - Shallow focus- Deep focus- Focus pulls

Balance• The way we can carefully place objects or

subjects in a frame to show equallness in colour, size or texture.

Symmetry

• Shot equally taken

Asymmetry

• A shot that is unbalanced

Rule of thirds

• A shot which is divided in three equal parts

Depth of field

• A distance of what is in focus.

Shallow focus

• One plane of an image that is in focus but the rest is out of focus.

Deep focus

• A shot showing foreground middle ground or background.

Focus pulls

• Adjusting the focus from one subject to the other.