This document defines and provides examples of different types of camera shots and angles used in filmmaking, including establishing shots, extreme long shots, medium shots, close-ups, extreme close-ups, high-angle shots, two-shots, point-of-view shots, over-the-shoulder shots, aerial shots, and worm's-eye view shots. These shots are used to establish locations, show movement and surroundings, focus on details, manipulate how characters are perceived, and put the audience in the perspective of characters.

2. - An ‘extreme long shot’ is a view from an even greater distance
- Can be used as an establishing shot to tell the audience where the next scene is
set

3. - Typically shows an entire object/human figure in correlation to its surroundings
- Useful for showing movement and establishing surroundings (action)

4. - Shot taken from medium distance

5. - Shot taken at a close range
- Shows the target on a larger scale

6. - An extreme close up is a tight shot showing detail of a key feature (i.e. a characters
eyes)
- The shot is so tight that only a detail of the subject

7. - Makes the characters look bigger
- Shows them as powerful and important

8. - A ‘high-angle shot’ is a cinematic technique where the camera looks down on the
subject from a ‘high angle’
- ‘High-angle’ shots can make the subject seem vulnerable or powerless

9. - A shot of two people together

10. - A ‘point of view shot’ (also known as ‘POV shot’) is a short film scene that shows
what a character (the subject) is looking at (represented through the camera).
- Puts the audience in the eyes of the character

11. - An ‘over the shoulder shot’ is a shot of someone or something taken from the
perspective or camera angle from the ‘shoulder’ of another person.

12. - A shot in which the camera photographs a scene from directly overhead

13. - A worm's-eye view is a view of an object from below, as though the observer were
a worm (Opposite to a bird’s eye)