2. Birds Eye View
• This shows a scene from directly overhead, a very
unnatural and strange angle. Furthermore People can be
made to look insignificant, ant-like, part of a wider scheme
of things.
• We will use this camera angle to give the audience
perspective on our school and to view it in a way that not
many people have seen. By doing this, viewers will see the
grounds and size of the school and denote that the 6th form
attend a great school.
3. Eye Level
• This is a fairly neutral camera angle, the camera would be
positioned as though a human would be observing the
scene, similar to ‘Point of View’. Camera would
approximately be 5 – 6 feet from the ground typically.
• This angle will be used as it is not to hard to shoot and is
also useful for us when conducting interviews, which we
want to heavily include. Below would be an example of an
eye level camera angle.
4. Close Up
• A close up shot is one that shows very little background
and would usually concentrate on either a face or on a
specific detail within ‘mise-en-scene’. Close up shots
magnify the object and in some cases can show the
importance of things.
• We want to use the camera shot when filming the ‘Pre’.
Close up shots of the DJ decks that one of our
participants will be using is also what we want. Using
close ups will denote the idea of partying and help us with
‘mise-en-scene’
5. Establishing Shot
• An establishing shot is one that is typical at the beginning
of a new scene and is designed to show the audience
where the action is taking place and is usually a very wide
shot or extreme wide shot.
• Establishing shots will be used to signify to the viewer
where we are in the documentary, a location. Specifically
this will be done at Reeds School as well as at the club
‘33Hertz’ and we will film at the pre.
6. Medium Shot
• This shot would usually contain a shot from above the
waist, variations on this include a ‘two shot’ (containing
two figures from the waist up) and the ‘three shot’
(contains 3 figures). Furthermore anymore than three
people in the shot and it starts to turn into a long shot.
• Medium shot is good for when we have b-roll footage of
reeds pupils and upper 6th form. A medium shot will most
likely for us be used in the 6th form house and when pupils
are walking to and from lessons.
7. Long Shot
• This shot is one of the more harder ones to define, but
shows the image as approximately ‘life’ size. This entails
showing a full shot showing the entire human body, with
the head near the top of the frame and feet near the
bottom.
• This will most likely be used like the medium shot in the
6th form house when filming some of the pupils. At the pre
we will also want to make use of this shot.
8. Two Shot
• This type of shot shows two people standing next to each
other in a shot normally used to show two people
speaking or interaction in some other way such as in a
fight etc. In documentaries this type of shot is most
commonly used as a way of filming interviews.
• We are planning to use the camera shot when
interviewing Joe, Angus and Jennifer Hart the psychology
teacher.
9. Why we want to use these shots?
• We want to use these camera angles and shots in our
documentary as we want our production to look as clean
and professional as possible. That means studying shot
types in order to create a documentary which follows the
codes and conventions of other documentaries but with
originality at the same time. Once we studied these we
had better knowledge of how to do this.
