This document defines common camera terms and their meanings, including high and low camera angles, bird's eye view, canted angle, pans, tilts, tracking shots, crane shots, and pull focus techniques. High angles look down onto a subject while low angles position the camera lower. Bird's eye views look directly down from above. Pans move the camera from side to side while tilts move up and down. Tracking and crane shots involve moving the camera on tracks or cranes. Pull focus changes the focus between foreground and background elements.

1. Camera terms Examples Connotations/
High angle The camera looking
down onto the object
or thing.
Low angle It’s positioned low
Bird’s eye view It looks directly
down.
Canted angle The camera is on a
slant.
Pan A static camera
movement from left
to right.
Tilt The camera moves up
and down.

2. Track/ dolly The camera moves on
a track.
Crane/ mechanical
zoom
Something taking or
filmed from a very
high angle, using a
crane.
Pull focus Focusing on
something in the
foreground or the
background.