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What matters: The expressive results of
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Identify the subject-camera distance and
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Editor's Notes
- Extreme long shot (XLS) – establishing shot, wide view of a location.
- Extreme long shot (XLS) – person not recognizable (except from context)
- Long shot (LS) – full body and some of the surroundins.
- Medium long shot (MLS) – from the knees up, often used for two characters in conversation.
- MLS
- Medium shot (MS) – waist up, proximity without intimacy.
- Medium close-up (MCU)
- Close up (CU)
- Close-up (CU)
- Extreme close-up (XCU)
- Eye-level. Normal.