This document discusses various camera shots and techniques used in filmmaking. It describes shots like extreme close-up, close-up, medium close-up, medium shot, and high angle shot, and how they are used to show emotion, focus attention on characters, reveal details, and establish context. It also covers shot types like two shots, shot-reverse shots, and over the shoulder shots used for conversations between characters. Finally, it discusses camera movements like panning, tilting, dolly shots, and zooming and how they are used to follow or frame the action.

1. Extreme close up (ECU)- eyes or object
 Show emotion
 Creates anticipation
 Draws theattention of the audience
 Help the audience connect to the character
 Shows importance
 Normally can be eyes to give the
audience a better senseof the scene
Close up (CU) - face and shoulders
 More facial detail can be seen
 Reveals more in the scene
 Brings a greater focus to the character
 Background detail
 Faces can draw the audience into
the character
Medium close up (MCU)- chest shot
 Reveals background information and props
 Help reveal costume
 Could reveal plot or genre
Medium Shot (MS)- waistshot
 Background can show wherethe
character is
 Props aremore visible and appear more
 Other characters can be seen and other actors
Medium Wide Shot(MWS)-thigh shot
 Allows the audience to see a moredepth
medium shot
High Angle Shot (HAS)- in the air looking down at the character
 Emphasisethe height of the building to show risk
 The character appear small

2. Over the shoulder shot- shoulders of a character
 Get the shoulder in the shot
 Puts the audience in the shot
 Allows the audience to see the same thing
as the character
Point Of View- sharing the same view as a character
 creates suspense
 Feel whatthe character feels
 Connects the audience to the person
Shot types/Movement
Two shot- this shows a conversation/link or reaction between characters
Shot/ReverseShot- is where one character is shown looking (often off-screen)
at another character, and then the other character is shown looking “back” at
the firstcharacter. Since the characters areshown facing in opposite
directions, the viewer unconsciously assumes thatthey are looking at each
other (the 180 Degree rule)
Dolly/Tracking shot- (Dolly) shots will involvea track,
(Tracking) is placed on a moving vehicle, both are good for movement

3. Hand-held shot- can give a gerky butrealistic effect
Zooming in/out- when the camera gets closer to or moves away from the
action in a very quick movement. The zoom lense means that the camera
doesn’tneed to be moved. This can suggestsurveillance, voyeurism, and
intense obsevation, frames get smaller
Pans- a movement which scans a scene horizontilly. The camera is placed on a
tripod, which operates as a stationary axis point as the camera is turned
(moving object is kept in the centrreof frame)
Tilts- a movement which scans a scene vertically, otherwisesimilar to a pan.
High angle- this shotlooks down on the action from a superior position – the
observer dominates, power, higher status
Low angle- this shot up at the action from below, an inferior position – the
observer is vunrable, weak and lower in status