The document describes various camera shots and angles used in filmmaking, including wide shots, medium shots, close-ups, cutaways, inserts, and establishing shots. Different shots like close-ups are used to show emotion while two-shots capture interactions. Angles like over-the-shoulder put the audience in the perspective of characters. Proper use of these shots and angles can effectively guide audience perspective and engagement with the story.

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 Directorsay Camera rolling1,2,3 ,there isa methodactingforactors to playthe
numberforthe purpose of lettingactorsknow what isthe timingsuitforthemto enter
frame
 So that theycan reach the same timingtoshootthe scene afterDirectorsay ACTION 1,2,3
 Left/ Rightcamera = framingoff centre tothe left/ right
 Whencomposingthe shots,remembertogive enoughheadroomandlookspace
so that to showa nice lookbecause the subjectandsceneryhave arightpositioninside
the scene
 Use highangle andlowangle to show differenttypesof visual effectandgetdifferent
typesof feeling
 We alwaysuse EYE LEVEL compose a scene so that audiencesable togetthe resonance
whatthe actors tryingto bringout
 Furthermore,EYELEVEL ismore comfortable inview foraudiencestowatcha 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
MiddleGround
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 isdoingsomethingsuchasholding athingswhichisrelevantwiththe storytelling.
 To bringout the feelingmore closerwithaudience sothatthe audience alsocanget the same
feelingwiththe characterinthe story.
 Sometime insertshotisjustconnectthe scene ,forinstance anhour handof clockis moving,adrop
of raindrop ona surface of leaf to create a nice visual effect.
Intercutting Shot
 From one scene change toanotherscene
 Two relevance scene atthe same place butdifferentposition
Cut Away
 From one scene change toanotherscene
 The changing fromday to nightor froma place change to anotherplace
 Two relevance scene
 Sometime we shootamainscene andcut to nextscene whenanotheractorsenterframe oncue

7. Frame to Reframe
 From one scene movedbypanningortiltingtoanotherscene
 It issubjective ,specificsomething
 To show more detail aboutthe storytellinginsequence=bringaudience lookatthe same position
Establishing Shot
 Showingasituationbypanning
 From Objective toSubjective
Reverse Angle
 Compose LeftandRightCamera – Especiallythe actorsare talkingto eachother
- Sometime willcuttoMaster shot continuously
- Master shot= shootbothof themare talkinginframe
 Compose Overthe ShoulderandFrontal shot– Showingwhatthe actor isdoingnow by differenttypesof angle
- Get differentfeelingandvisual 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.