Camera Shots, Angles, Movement and Composition

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.

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 the

Eastenders 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:

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Canted angle - The camera is tilted/slanted.>

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.

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