Camera shots like overhead shots and reaction shots are used to show different perspectives. Editing techniques such as freeze frames, eye matches, and cross cutting are used to focus on or compare elements. Camera movements including pans, zooms, tracks, and fixed frames establish scenes and follow subjects. Politically incorrect attitudes around racism, sexism, homophobia, inappropriate language, smoking, drinking and swearing should be avoided.

1. Camera Shots
Overhead Shot
Camera is positions above the character
action or object.
Used to: Something is falling, someone is
watching, something is going to happen.
Allow audience to see whether character
is isolated.
Reaction Shot:
Show the reaction of a character to
another character or an event.
Editing
Freeze frame:
Effect of seemingly stopping the movie
in order to focus on in on an element.
Eye Match:
Cuts from one character to what they
are looking at.
Cross Cutting:
Interweaving one narrative action to
another.
Used to: show parallel actions and to
compare two scenes.
Shot Reverse Shot:
Switch back and forth between two
characters interacting with each other.
Camera Movement
Pan: camera moves from left to right to
establish a scene.
Zoom: Camera getting closer to the
subject/ object or further away.
Crane: camera moves above ground
level, rises or descends.
Track: Camera follows the subject/
object. Moves on the ground forward,
backwards or side to side.
Fixed frame: character moves towards
the fixed frame or many people can pass
by from one side to the other side of the
frame.
Hand-held: a bumpy image makes the
work look authentic.
Politically incorrect attitudes and behaviour.
Racism
Sexism
homophobia
Inappropriate language terms.
Smoking/drugs
Alcohol drinking
swearing