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Movie Shots Framing, Angles, and Movement

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descriptions of camera shots, angles, movement, and other camera use

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Page 1: Camera shots

Movie Shots

Framing, Angles, and Movement

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Framing

• How much do we see?• How far away?

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Extreme Long Shot

• Generally used to set the scene.

• Normally shows an exterior (outside of a building or landscape)

• Often used to show thrilling action, e.g. a war or disaster movie

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Long shot

• Shows whole body or space

• Allows room for action

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Medium shot

• Characters shown from the knees or waist up

• Allows room for gestures

• Used for talking or to show an action detail.

• Most commonly used shot

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Close up

• Shows very little background

• Concentrates on a face or other detail

• Can be used to make us very comfortable, or very uncomfortable about a character

• We don’t let many people get that close!

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Extreme Close Up!

• Magnifies beyond what the human eye would normally see.

• Might show only face or eyes

• Might show tiny detail otherwise overlooked!

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Camera Angles

• Pay attention to the relationship between the camera and the object.

• The more extreme the angle, the more symbolic the shot

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Bird’s Eye View

• A view from directly overhead

• A very unnatural and strange angle.

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High Angle

• Not as extreme as bird’s eye

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Eye level

• Camera’s “eye” at same level as subject’s eye

• Emotionally neutral shot (usually)

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Low Angle

• Camera is placed low, looking up

• Makes short actors look taller!

• Background mostly sky or ceiling

• Can make viewer scared, impressed, or confused

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Oblique Angle

• Camera is not pointed directly at front of subject

• Camera might be tilted to suggest imbalance or confusion

• Often shows point of view of a particular character

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Camera Movement

• Actually moving the camera while filming

• Director could also choose to use a series of cuts, keeping the action moving without moving the camera

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Pans

• Camera moves across the scene horizontally

• Camera sits on a tripod or stationary axis as camera turns

• Often follows a moving object which stays in the middle of the frame

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Tilts

• Camera scans vertically (up and down), unlike a pan.

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Dolly shot

• Sometimes called trucking or tracking shots

• Camera put on vehicle that follows along next to the action

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Hand-held shots

• Allows person to move in and out of scenes easily

• Gives jerky, ragged effect, unlike dolly shot

• Offers gritty realism

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Crane shots

• Equivalent to dolly shots in the air.

• Crane allows easy movement of the camera: up, down, left, right, swooping in and out of the action

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Zoom lenses

• Allows change in framing without moving the camera.

• Keeps same subject in center, coming in closer to it or moving away.

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Aerial shot

• Usually from a helicopter

• Can convey excitement with lots of movement, following anything from the air.

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Fish-eye lens

• Distorts image• Edges more distorted

than center• Gives unreal sensation

to viewer

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Two-shot

Shows two people to establish the relationship between them (how well do they know each other?)

Used for conversation scenes

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Over-the-Shoulder Shot

• Used in dialogue scenes to show the face of one person

• Often alternates: first over one character’s shoulder, then over the other’s shoulder