2. Establishing shot
An establishing shot can be taken
from as much as a quarter of a mile
away. This shot generally gives the
audience an idea of where
something such as a film is set, eg
the outside of a building or a
landscape.
3. Wide shot
A wide shot typically shows
the whole object or human.
It is a broader shot, to
emphasise size, scale, the
dramatic or epic.
4. Crane Shot
A crane is a useful way of moving a camera -
it can move up, down, left, right, swooping in
on action or moving diagonally out of it. A
crane shot is useful to let the audience see
all the different objects and people from only
one point of view.
5. Aerial Shot / Birds eye view
An exciting similarity of a crane shot, which
usually taken from a plane and helicopter. This
is often used at the beginning of a film, in order
to establish setting and movement. This shot
can go anywhere, move in and out of a scene,
and express real drama and excitement.
6. Close up
A close up shot, gives the audience a whole new view which is full
of detail. It focuses on the main object or person and puts it into
frame.
7. Extreme close up
An extreme version of the close up, generally magnifying beyond
what the human eye would experience in the real world. An
extreme close up informs the audience the different features
someone would had for example in the picture it is focusing on the
eye. The audience can be informed from this shot that the person
has dark brown eyes, this is something the audience would not be
able to see in any other shot.
8. Point of view
This is a shot were we see what the actor sees through
their own eyes. It makes the audience feel like they are in
the characters body.
9. Low angle shot
This shot looks up at the action from below, – the
observer is vulnerable, weak and lower in position.
10. High angle shot
This shot looks down on the. It shows that the
observer dominates, has power, and it in a higher
position.
11. Pans
A movement which scans a
scene horizontally. The camera
is placed in a stationary axis
point as the camera is turned,
often to follow a moving object
which is kept in the middle of the
frame.
12. Tilts
A movement which scans a scene vertically, in this example it shows the audience the whole object or person from head to
toe.
13. Over the shoulder
This is a shot where we see what the actor sees but
not through their own eyes – This puts the viewer in
the scene, but as an assistant to the action.
14. Shot reverse shot
Is a shot where you alternate
between one character to another.
Since the characters are shown
facing in opposite directions, the
viewer automatically assumes that
they are looking at each other this is
also known as the 180 degree rule.
15. Two Shot
Two Shots are good at giving the audience an
opportunity to understand the relationship
between two subjects.
16. Zoom/ reverse zoom
This is when the camera gets closer to or moves away
from the action in a very quick movement. This can
suggest surveillance, voyeurism and intense
observation.
