This document defines and describes various camera shots and techniques used in filmmaking, including high angle shots, low angle shots, bird's-eye views, panning, tilting, tracking, dolly shots, crane shots, steadicam shots, zooming, reverse zooming, handheld shots, deep focus shots, and shallow focus shots. It provides brief explanations of each technique and how it is achieved through camera placement and movement.

1. Shot Picture Definition
High In film, a high angle shot
is usually when the
camera angle is located
above the eyeline. With
this type of angle, the
camera looks down on
the subject and the point
of focus often get
"swallowed up" by the
setting.
Low Low angle shot. Define
Low angle shot at
Dictionary.com. low-angle
shot. a shot taken
with the camera placed
in a position below and
pointing upward at the
subject.
Birds eye view A bird's-eye view is an
elevated view of an
object from above, with a
perspective as though
the observer were a bird,
often used in the making
of blueprints, floor plans
and maps. It can be an
aerial photograph, but
also a drawing.
Pan Camera Movement: The
Pan Shot. Filmmaking:
Camera Movements.
Panning is a camera
movement technique
that involves moving the
camera horizontally to
the right or left. With this
technique you can track
an object or follow any
type of movement.
Tilt The Dutch angle, also
known as Dutch tilt,
canted angle, oblique
angle or German angle,
is 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

2. lines at an angle to the
side of the frame, or so
that the horizon line of
the shot is not parallel
with the bottom of the
camera frame.
Track/Dolly In motion picture
terminology, the term
tracking shot may refer
to a shot in which the
camera is mounted on a
camera dolly, a wheeled
platform that is pushed
on rails while the picture
is being taken; in this
case the shot is also
known as a dolly shot or
trucking shot.
Crane/mechanical shot In filmmaking and video
production, a crane shot
is a shot taken by a
camera on a crane or jib.
The most obvious uses
are to view the actors
from above or to move
up and away from them,
a common way of ending
a movie.
Steadicam A lightweight mounting
for a film camera which
keeps it steady for
filming when handheld
or moving.
Zoom/Reverse zoom A shot that views the
action from the opposite
side of the previous shot,
as during a conversation
between two actors,
giving the effect of
looking from one actor to
the other.
Hand held The technique of
shooting a scene without
the use of an artificial
mechanism for camera
support; holding a
camera by hand or with a
harness when shooting.
Deep focus Deep focus is a

3. photographic and
cinematographic
technique using a large
depth of field. Depth of
field is the front-to-back
range of focus in an
image — that is, how
much of it appears sharp
and clear. Consequently,
in deep focus the
foreground, middle-ground
and background
are all in focus.
Shallow focus