The document defines and describes various camera shots and angles used in filmmaking. It discusses extreme long shots and close-ups that show subjects from far away or in great detail. It also covers mid-range shots like medium shots that show both the subject and surroundings, as well as shot types based on the camera's position like high angles, low angles, and bird's eye or worm's eye views. The document provides filmmakers information on technical shooting styles and how different shots and angles can impact the audience's perception of the subject.

1. Camera Shots and Angles
By Ben Harris

2. Extreme Long Shot: A wider frame value in
which subjects in the frame are small; a
building, cityscape.
Extreme Close-Up: a certain feature, such as
someone's head, takes up the whole frame.
The shot is so tight that only a detail of the
subject, such as someone's eyes, can be seen.
Long shot: Includes an amount of picture
within the frame which roughly corresponds to
the audience's view of the area within the
proscenium arch of the legitimate theater.
Camera Shots

3. Medium Long Shot: Frames the whole subject
from the knees up. An intermediate shot
between the long shot and the medium shot.
Shows the subject in relation to the
surroundings.
Medium full shot: A shot which
cuts off at the knees and just
above the head
Medium Shot: a camera shot in which the
subject is in the middle distance, permitting
some of the background to be seen.
Medium close shot: Falls just above
the waist and just above the head
Full shot: A type of long shot which includes
the human body in full, with the head near the
top of the frame and the feet near the bottom
Close-up, Close shot: A detailed view of a
person or object, usually without much context
provided.

4. Big Close Up: This is full head height and the
head takes up the entire screen. It contains
little or no background. This shows the detail
of the character’s face.
Head Close Up: Bottom of frame cuts of
the neck and the top cuts off just above
the head. Not a common shot,
sometimes used in horror

5. High angle shot: A shot in which the subject is
photographed from above. Shows the subject
as having a lack of power.
Low angle shot: A shot in which the subject is
photographed from below. Shows the subject
as being powerful.
Canted angle: a type of camera shot where
the camera is set at an angle on its roll axis
so that the shot is composed with vertical
lines at an angle to the side of the frame, it
is often used to represent someone being
drunk or in distress.
Camera Angles

6. Bird's eye view: A shot in which the camera
photographs a scene from directly overhead.
A worm's-eye view: is a view of an object from
below, as though the observer were a worm;
the opposite of a bird's-eye view. A worm's eye
view is used commonly for third perspective,
with one vanishing point on top, one on the
left, and one on the right.
Point of view: This shot shows a view from the
subject's perspective. It is usually edited in
such a way that it is obvious whose POV it is