Camera Shots, angles and movement.

1. Camera Shots, angles and movement.

2. What is a shot? • A shot is a series of frames, that runs for an uninterrupted period of time. • Film shots are an essential aspect of a movie where angles, transitions and cuts are used to further express emotion, ideas and movement. • In production, a shot is the moment that the camera starts rolling until the moment it stops. • In film editing, a shot is the continuous footage or sequence between two edits or cuts.

3. Camera Shot Categories • Extreme Long shot • Long shot • Wide Shot • Establishing shot • Mid / Medium Shot • Medium Close-up • Close up shot • Extreme Close Up • Birds eye view shot • Over the shoulder shot • Point of view shot • Two Shot

4. Extreme Long Shot • A wider frame value in which subjects in the frame are small; a building, cityscape.

5. Long Shot • A shot which displays a full figure from top to tip showing the entire object or human figure.

6. Wide Shot • Long shot as a "wide shot" because it often requires the use of a wide-angle lens.

7. Establishing Shot • When a long shot is used to set up a location and its participants in film and video, it is called a establishing shot.

8. Mid / Medium Shot • A shot displaying the human figure / object in half.

9. Medium Close-up • A shot which displays the figure in a little close-up form but the head and shoulders are very much in the frame.

10. Close-up shot • It is a type of shot, which tightly frames a person or an object. Close-ups display the most detail, but they do not include the broader scene.

11. Extreme Close Up • The shot is so tight that only a detail of the subject, such as someone's eyes, can be seen

12. Birds eye shot • A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object from above, with a perspective as though the observer were a bird.

13. Over the shoulder shot • An over the shoulder shot (also over shoulder, OS, OTS, or third-person shot) is a shot of someone or something taken from the perspective or camera angle from the shoulder of another person.

14. Point of view shot • A point of view shot (also known as POV shot or a subjective camera) shows what a character (the subject) is looking at (represented through the camera).

15. Two-Shot • A Two shot is a type of shot employed in the film industry in which the frame encompasses a view of two people (the subjects).

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31. Camera Angle • The camera angle marks the specific location at which a camera is placed to take a shot. • A scene may be shot from several camera angles simultaneously

32. Camera Angle Categories • High Angle shot • Low Angle shot • Eye-level camera angle

33. High Angle shot • A high angle shot is usually when the camera angle is located above the eyeline. • Connotes inferiority.

34. Low Angle shot • A low-angle shot, is a shot from a camera positioned low on the vertical axis, anywhere below the eyeline, looking up. • Connotes superiority.

35. Eye-level camera angle • It is a shot when the camera is positioned on the same level as that of the character in the film.

36. Camera Movement Categories • Panning • Tilt • Zoom • Tracking / Dolly

37. Panning • Panningrefers to the rotation in a horizontal plane of a camera.

38. Tilt • Technique in which the camera is stationary and rotates in a vertical plane

39. Zoom • A camera movement requiring a zoom lens ("zoom in/out")

40. Tracking / Dolly • The camera is mounted to the dolly and the camera assistant usually ride on the dolly to operate the camera. • For smooth movement.

41. Pop quiz • What was the vertical movement of the camera called? • …horizontal?