Final Assignment 15/12/2014

1. Full shot / Wide shot
Take whole part of things or
people from top to bottom inside the scene
Medium Long shot (MLS)
 Take a shoot from the knee up of the
actor
Medium shot (MS)
Take a shoot from the belly of the actor

2. Medium Close up (MCU)
 Take a shoot from the chest of the actor
 Always used in Reverse angle
Close up (CU)
 Take a shoot from the shoulder of the
actor
 More closer with audience
Extreme Close up (ECU)
 Take a shoot from over eyebrows to
below lip of the actor
 More closer with audience
 To show out the feeling or emotional of
actors directly

3. Big Close up (BCU)
 Take a specific shoot on the face like
eyes and mouth of actor
 Show more detail to bring audience into
the storytelling
Profile Shot
 Catch side view of actor
 Represent the expression of actor
 A shooting angle represent a natural
look of actor
Symmetry
 It look like a reflection inside the scene
whether horizontal or vertical
 Have a nice look

4.  Before Director say Camera rolling 1,2,3 ,there is a method acting for actors to play the
number for the purpose of letting actors know what is the timing suit for them to enter
frame
 So that they can reach the same timing to shoot the scene after Director say ACTION 1,2,3
 Left / Right camera = framing off centre to the left / right
 When composing the shots ,remember to give enough head room and look space
so that to show a nice look because the subject and scenery have a right position inside
the scene
 Use high angle and low angle to show different types of visual effect and get different
types of feeling
 We always use EYE LEVEL compose a scene so that audiences able to get the resonance
what the actors trying to bring out
 Furthermore, EYE LEVEL is more comfortable in view for audiences to watch a video

5. Out Focus – In Focus
 Focus the part that actor is focusing first
 Then, focus the actor
 Guide audiences to follow the visual effect so that can touch the
feeling of audience
Without Foreground – With Foreground
 A scene with foreground or without foreground both also look nice
 But sometime the scene with foreground will bring out depth feeling
and more attractive .
Background
Middle Ground
MCU, Single shot – MS, 2 shot
 MCU,Single shot to express the emotional of the actor, send the feeling of
actors to audiences
 Cut to MS, 2 shot to express what is the situation ,let audiences know
what is happening
 We also can compose MCU, single shot to CU, single shot to send the
feeling of actors to audiences.

6. Insert Shot
 Frame the actor is doing something such as holding a things which is relevant with the storytelling.
 To bring out the feeling more closer with audience so that the audience also can get the same
feeling with the character in the story.
 Sometime insert shot is just connect the scene ,for instance an hour hand of clock is moving ,a drop
of rain drop on a surface of leaf to create a nice visual effect.
Intercutting Shot
 From one scene change to another scene
 Two relevance scene at the same place but different position
Cut Away
 From one scene change to another scene
 The changing from day to night or from a place change to another place
 Two relevance scene
 Sometime we shoot a main scene and cut to next scene when another actors enter frame on cue

7. Frame to Reframe
 From one scene moved by panning or tilting to another scene
 It is subjective ,specific something
 To show more detail about the storytelling in sequence=bring audience look at the same position
Establishing Shot
 Showing a situation by panning
 From Objective to Subjective
Reverse Angle
 Compose Left and Right Camera – Especially the actors are talking to each other
- Sometime will cut to Master shot continuously
- Master shot= shoot both of them are talking in frame
 Compose Over the Shoulder and Frontal shot – Showing what the actor is doing now by different types of angle
- Get different feeling and visual of expression

8. Over The Shoulder (OTS)
 Bring audiences together in the story
 Get more closer with audiences
Depth In Frame (DIF)
 An Art visual effect
 A special angle to bring audiences in
the story
Point Of View (POV)
 Showing what the actor is doing
 Let audiences to follow the view of actor to make sense
 Get more closer to put themselves into the story.