TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES CU Shows face or part of face WHY? Shows emotion, what character is thinking / seeing
TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES
CUShows face or part of face
WHY? Shows emotion,
what character is thinking
/ seeing
TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES
MSMedium Shot
Usually waist to top of head
WHY? Average conversation distance
TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES
MCUMedium Close Up
Somewhere between
CU & MS
TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES
WSWide shot
Shows entire body / location
TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES
Establishing ShotA wide shot showing audience new location / scene change
TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES
XCU/ECUExtreme Close Up
Shows only a piece of face
/ object
WHY? Serious emphasis on emotion or object
TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES
2STWO SHOT – a medium shot
of two people
TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES
POVPOINT OF VIEW – the camera acts as
a person’s (or object’s) eyes
TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES
OTSOver the shoulder shot
- Conversations
- Show perspective
TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES
DUTCH
ANGLECrooked shot
Conveys confusion, chaos
TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES
DUTCH ANGLEThor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0oDm4J3YOg
Battlefield Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8z7-DIa1As
TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES
HIGHANGLEShot from above eye line
Makes person look smaller or weak
TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES
LOWANGLEShot from below the eye line
Makes person look taller or more powerful
MOTION /
MOVEMENT
SHOTS
PAN• Horizontal movement from fixed
position
• Why?– Follow
–Reveal or establish location
TILT•Vertical movement from fixed position
ZOOM•enlarges part of an image
ZOOM
DON’T
DOLLY• Camera physically moves closer to or
away from something
• Why?
– follow someone / something
– emphasize an emotion
DOLLY
DOLLY•The Vertigo Shothttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWRncNMEhLw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKJeTaIEldM
TRUCK (or tracking shot / slider)
• “sideways dolly”
• Camera physically moves left or right– To track something / someone
– Reveal something
CRANE / JIB• Technocrane examples
CRANE / JIB
ARC SHOT / ARC DOLLY
• Camera moves around subject in circular path
• Why?
– Reveals something / someone
– Establishes / reveals location
– Amplifies emotion
Cast Away scene
Black Hawk Down
AERIAL / FLYOVER, (DRONE) etc.
• Camera flies over / around something
• Establishing shot
• Shows large scale (battle, landscape, etc)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOomDInRR1o