Camera shots and angles

Camera shots, movements and anglesFROM HANI MOHAMOUD 12K

Establishing shot

This is an example of an establishing shot, an establishing shot is a type of camera shot used to show the setting at the beginning of the scene or sequence, however it is from a distance. It is often an aerial or birds eye view shot.

Crane shot

This is when a mechanical arm is stretched above a space and onto a platform and filmed from above. The mechanical arm can move across, up and down.

Long shot

This type of shot is typically used in establishing shots as it shows the setting in its wholeness. This is also used to show the characters entirety as well as the setting they are placed in.

Medium Long shot

This is a camera shot that presents the character(s) from the waist and above.

Close up

This shot presents us with a subject enhanced for expel a persons face, it fills up mostly the entirety of the screen. It could give the viewer a better insight as to what the person is feeling as it could be presented in their facial expression as it is more in detail.

Handheld shot

This is where the camera woman or man hold the camera in their hand creating a gritty and raw effect. It makes the audience feel as if they are involved in the action. An example of this is Cloverfield (Reeves, 2008).

Point of view

This shot is similar to eye line match as in we see where they are looking however with P.O.V we are seeing this through the characters eyes.

Aerial shot

This is shot from a helicopter and we see this from overhead. today we can do this digitally using miniatures

High angle shot

This is when the camera is placed above eye level of the character and therefore presents us looking down at the subject.

Low angle shot

This is similar to a high angle shot however the camera is below the subjects eye level and therefore presents us looking up at the subject.

Tracking shot

A tracking, or trucking, shot is one in which a camera is mounted on some kind of conveyance (car, ship, airplane, etc.) and films while moving through space. Tracking refers to the practice in studio filmmaking of filming from a wagon set on specially placed lengths of railroad tracks.

Eye line match

This is a type of continuity editing where there is a cut between the character and an object they are looking at which gives an illusion.

180 degree rule

This camera shot is when the camera is at an angle where it stays at one axis the entire action. This keeps characters grounded on a particular frame or scene as well as keeping them looking at one another when one character is on screen at a time. The technique allows for a wider on look of the unseen. ‘It is referred to as a rule because the camera, when shooting two actors, must not cross over the axis of action; if it does, it risks giving the impression that the actors' positions in the scene have been reversed’.