This document discusses different camera techniques including shot sizes, angles, movement, framing, and space. It describes wide shots that show the full setting, mid shots that show a person from waist up, and close ups that focus on a person's face. Low angles make a subject seem powerful while high angles make them seem vulnerable. It also discusses ensuring proper headroom, leadroom, and noseroom when framing shots and smoothly panning or tilting the camera to follow moving subjects.

1. Camera Shot Size & Angles
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2. Camera Movement
• To achieve smooth movement you
will need to pan and tilt so that the
frame moves evenly, without any
jerky or sudden movements.

3. Different Variation of Shot Sizes
• Wide Shot/Extreme Long Shot - audience sees the setting -
establishing shot. figures are very small.
• Long Shot - figures seen from head to foot - identify more
detail about the person/character.
• Mid Shot - frame from their waste to their head - easily
recognise details of the character.
• Medium Shot - similar to mid shot - from their chest to their
head.
• Close Up - frame contains persons head and shoulders -
thoughts and feelings of character are shown.
• Big Close Up - shows just the face - signifying emotions or
focusing on expressions.
• Extreme Close Up - extremely close - just below the mouth,
just above the eyebrow - make a person feel powerful or
threatened.

4. Different Variation of Camera Angles
• Low Angle - below the subject pointing upwards -
effect of overpowering, important or threatening.
• High Angle - above the subject pointing down -
effect of vulnerable, insignificant or threatened.
• POV - shows what character is looking at from
their Point Of View.
• Bird's Eye View - camera looking vertically
straight down at the subject.
• Worm Eye View - view of an object from below,
as though the observer were a worm. A worm's
eye view is used commonly for third perspective.

5. Headroom:
• Too much Headroom
Headroom is the amount of space between the top of the
subjects head in comparison to the frame
• Not enough Headroom
• Correct Headroom

6. Leadroom: Leadroom is the space in front, and in the direction, of stationary
or moving bodies or objects.
• Poor Leadroom
• Good Leadroom

7. Noseroom: Noseroom is the space in front, and in the direction, of stationary
of moving faces.
• Too little Noseroom
• Sufficient Noseroom

8. Anticipatory Framing
• We use panning to follow a person walking, to
do this correctly you need to become
proficient at anticipatory framing.
• To achieve this you need to be able to
anticipate the direction of your subject’s
movement and move the frame fluidly to
constantly ensure a sufficient amount of
headroom and Leadroom.