The document defines and provides examples of various media terms used in filmmaking including: - Establishing shots set the context of a scene. Low angle shots look up and high angle shots look down. Close ups tightly frame subjects while medium close ups show from chest to head. - Extreme close ups show extreme detail. Long shots show the entire subject and surroundings. Medium long shots show from head to knees. Two shots show two heads facing each other. - Aerial shots view large landscapes. Point of view shots show what a character sees. Panning and tracking follow subjects horizontally or on rails. Dollying moves more freely. - Hand held shots are done by the operator. The rule of

1. Media Terms
Amelia Eguchi-Wale

2. Establishing Shot
An establishing shot sets up
or establishes the context
for a scene.

3. Low angled shot
A low
angle
shot
taken
from the
movie
Seven
(1995)
A low angled shot is a shot from a camera
angle positioned low on the vertical axis
looking up.

4. High angled shot
High
angled
shot
taken
from
Harry
Potter
and the
Chamber
of
Secrets
(2002)
A high angled shot is when the camera is located above the eye
line looking down on the subject.

5. Close up
Used here
in The
Shining
(1980) to
emphasise
the
reaction
shot of a
character
A close up tightly frames a person or object

6. Medium close up
A medium
close up
shot from
Anna
Karenina
(2012)
A medium close up shows a person from their chest to their head.

7. Extreme close up
This extreme
close up
from the
Blair Witch
Project
(1999)
emphasises
the
characters
emotions
An extreme close up gets right in and shows extreme detail

8. Long shot
Long shot
from
Titanic
(1997)
A long shot shows the entire object or human in some relation to
surroundings.

9. Medium long shot
A medium long shot is a camera angle shot from a medium distance
showing head to knees of a person

10. Two/three shot
This
two/three
shot taken
from Ted
(2012) shows
the
interaction
between
two
characters
A two/three shot shows two/three heads facing each other in
profile to the camera

11. Aerial shot
An aerial shot views large landscapes.

12. Point of view
A point of view shot shows what a character is looking at from
their perspective (how they would see it)

13. Panning
Panning is a technique using rotation in a horizontal plane of a
still camera or video camera to follow something or to
establish a scene

14. Canted angle
By using a
canted angle
– like shown
here in Harry
Potter and
the Chamber
of Secrets
(2002) – and
interesting
perspective is
created
A canted angle is a camera angle deliberately slanted to the side

15. Tracking
Tracking is when the camera is mounted and pushed on rails whilst
the picture is taken – normally used to follow an
object/person.

16. Dollying
Dollying is similar to tracking but can move more freely instead
of on a set straight track eg. Curved track.

17. Hand held shot
Shot
showing the
hand held
technique
being used in
Cloverfield
(2008) –
creates a
realistic
feel
Hand held shots are done by the camera being held in the
operators hand opposed to being mounted on a tri-pod

18. Rule of 3rds
Rule of 3rds is a composition technique used stating an image
should be divided into 9 equally spaced sections and that the
compositional elements of the shot should align with the
intersections to create a more interesting shot

19. Depth of field
Depth of
field
demonstrat
ed in Hugo
(2011) – the
background
is out of
focus but the
character
and books
are not
Depth of field is the distance between the nearest and furthest
objects in a scene that appear sharp in an image