On National Teacher Day, meet the 2024-25 Kenan Fellows
Camera Shots and Film Analysis - Film as Text
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Basic Camera Shots
Learning Intention: To learn how to
use Media terminology
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Mise-en-scene
• = “put in scene”
• Everything is in the scene for a reason.
• This includes props, lighting, music,
setting, characters
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Sound
• There are two types
of sound:
• Diegetic
• Non-diegetic
• Voices of the
characters, sounds
from things in the film
• Voiceovers, music
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Point of view shot
High-angle shot
Over the shoulder
shot
Close-up shot
Low angle shot
Medium Shot
Long shot
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Point of view shot
Close-up shot
Over the shoulder
shot
High-angle shot
Extreme close up
Low angle shot
High-angle shot
Medium Shot
Long shot
Medium long shot
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• Point of view shot
• The audience sees the
situation from the
character’s position
• High-angle shot
• Suggests character’s
smallness, weakness or
isolation.
• The audience is in a powerful
position.
• Over the shoulder shot
• Focuses the audience’s
attention on one character
• Close-up shot
Concentrates attention.
Shows character’s emotion
Puts audience in a
privileged position.
• Extreme close up shot
• Audience in intimate relationship.
• Shows a character’s intimate
feelings.
• Low angle shot
• Suggests character’s bigness,
strength or dominance.
• Audience in weak position.
• Medium Shot
• Situates character in
immediate environment, yet
still shows emotion.
• Long shot
• Shows the context of the shot.
• Medium long shot
• Important in action scenes,
where emotion is still
important.
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Basic camera shots - answers
1. Extreme close-up
2. Point of view
3. Over the shoulder
4. High angle shot
5. Medium shot
6. Low angle
7. Long shot
8. Close-up
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Now we will practice this skill
across a number of different shots
from the film Edward Scissorhands
• As with other pieces of evidence used in
an essay, the format is as follows:
• The director (Tim Burton) has
used………… (Shot Type)
because……… (Intended Effect).