This document provides descriptions of various camera shots and angles that can be used in video production to convey different effects. It lists shots such as aerial shots from above, canted shots with a tilted angle, close-ups to focus on details like emotions, establishing shots to set the scene, and hand-held shots for realism. Other shots mentioned include high and low angles to make subjects seem powerful or vulnerable, long and tight shots for context or focus, and point-of-view shots to involve the audience. Master shots are also discussed as a way to establish relationships within a scene.

1. Camera Shots and Angles
By Yahia El-Sayed

2. Shots
- Here is a summary off the best/most useful camera shots that anyone
can implement into there production to add different effects.
- Here is a list of some of my personal favourites that I find to be very
useful

3. Aerial shot
a view from directly overhead to afford a clear view –
sometimes used to emphasize the spectacle.

4. Canted Shot
A shot which is tilted to one side. This is often used to create a
feeling of disorientation.

5. Close up
close ups, including extreme, big and medium close ups,
are used to draw the viewer closer and to involve them in what is happening; they
also used to observe reactions and emotions, such is happiness, elation or tension.
These shot often used to privilege the protagonist over other characters and position
the audience with him or her

6. Establishing shot
the shot (usually wide or long), often used at the start of a
program or film, a new section of a program or at the start of a new scene to
establish the relationship between the set/location and the characters and to show
the whole view

7. Crab Shot
a type of shot which involves the camera being placed in a confined
space. e.g. A shot taken from inside a cupboard is the subject opens the cupboard
door.

8. Deep focus
a camera technique that allows objects both near and far from the
camera to be in focus at the same time.

9. Hand-held shot
A shot filmed with the camera not on a tripod but instead held by
the camera man, often whilst walking. This makes the shots seem quite shaky. This
can make the audience feel the scene is more realistic, or can make us feel like we
are part of the action.

10. Head-on shot
for a type of shot in which the action comes directly toward the
camera. Head-On shots are often used in war or action movies to enhance the
sense of involvement and excitement of the audience, for example, charging cavalry
may be directed at the camera.

11. High angle
to provide a view from above the subject(s), often making the subject
look vulnerable, isolated or powerless. This is sometimes combined with a crane
shot into a closer shot of the subject(s).

12. Long shot
distance shot where the camera is a long way from the subjects being
filmed. A long shot can be effective as an establishing shot that sets the scene for
the action and roles in the viewer.

13. Loose frame shot
Describes a shot where there is a lot of room around an object or
person. Usually used to show them as being alone or isolated or unimportant.

14. Low angle shot
a shot where the camera approaches a subject from below eye
level. A Low-Angle shot can emphasize the size of the object being filmed and add
to a point of view perspective. It can make the character shown seem big and
powerful and it can make us or the character we are seeing through, seem small and
weak.

15. Tight frame shot
Describes a shot that is composed with the person or object given
very little space around them. Often used to make them seem important, or trapped.

16. Master shot
a camera shot used at the beginning of a sequence to establish the
component elements and relationships in such a way as to allow the audience to
make sense of the action follows.

17. Pan shot
camera action involving gently moving the camera 180°across the subject
matter in a horizontal plane

18. POV shot
a camera shot taken from the
position of the subjects, used to enhance a sense of realism and audience
involvement in the action.

19. End
• And that concludes my list of camera shots and angles. The End.