The main camera shots:
Establishing shot - This sets the scene, which includes all the main mis en scene to give the audience a first impression.
Close-up - Mainly capturing the face of a character, takes a close-up shot. >
Mid-shot - A shot of the mid-section of a body.
Long shot - A far away camera angle.
Wide shot - An even further away camera angle, generally showing the landscape.
Aerial shot - Can also be known as a bird's eye view shot, this shot is captured from the sky looking downwards. Famously used as the
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Canted angle - The camera is tilted/slanted.>
Two shot - Capturing two people in the same frame.
Aerial shot - Can also be known as a bird's eye view shot, this shot is captured from the sky looking downwards. Famously used as theEastenders logo.
Point of view shot - A camera angle taken from the view of a character's eyes, giving the audience the opportunity to feel like that specific character.
Over the shoulder shot - Mainly used during conversations. >
Camera Angles:
Camera Movements:
Pan - The camera is still but rotates horizontally.
Tilt - This is the same as pan except it tilts vertically.
Tracking - The camera is mounted on a track which allows the camera to move forwards and back steadily, this is normally used during running scenes, or racing scenes.
Crane - The camera moves up and down, parallell to the ground.
Steadicam - No bumps in
Hand-held - The opposite to steady cam, where all the motion is visible, generally used in scary films.
Zoom and reverse zoom -
The camera gets closer or further away from an object without moving the camera.
Camera Composition:
Framing - The shot that's composed, everything in a frame.
Deep focus - Foreground and background are both in focus.
Shallow Focus - The background is blurred, this draws your attention directly onto the foreground action.
Focus Pull - There's a change in focus, when the foreground and background swap for one to be in focus and the other to be blurred.
