Framing the Shot

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Framing the Shot

• Alexis Mojka

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Determine the depth of field and the lens used to
shoot it
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What is Framing?

• The act of determining the boundaries of the
  image
• Two Types
• Camera-to-Subject Distance
• Camera-to-Angle Distance

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Extreme Long Shot

• Frame in which the scale of the object is very
  small
• A building, landscape or crowd of people will
  fill the screen

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Long Shot

• The scale of the object shown is small
• Standing human would appear less than half the
  height of the screen

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Medium Long Shot

• Framing at a distance that makes an object about
  four or five feet high appear to fill most of the
  screen vertically
• A human figure seen from the knees up would fill
  most of the screen

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Medium Shot

• Scale of the object shown is moderate size
• A human figure from the waist up would fill most
  of the screen

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Medium Close-Up

• Scale of the object shown is fairly large
• A human figure seen from the chest up would fill
  most of the screen

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Close - Up

• The scale of the of the object shown is
  relatively large
• A persons head seen from the neck up or an
  object of comparable size that fills most of the
  screen

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Extreme Close-Up

• The scale of the object shown is very large
• A small object or a part of the body will fill
  the screen

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Birds Eye View

• Shot taken from directly above the object
• Most extreme high-angle shot

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Low-Angle Shot

• A shot in which the camera looks upward toward
  the subject

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High-Angle Shot

• Camera looks downward toward the subject

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Name the Shot
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Name the Shot
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And Now For Some Moving Images

• Movie Trailers
• Series of selected shots from the advertised film
• Purpose is to attract an audience to the film
• Shots are usually drawn from the most exciting,
  funny, or otherwise noteworthy parts of the film

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Trailers

• There Will Be Blood
• The Bourne Ultimatum

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Storyboard
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Image Sources

• http//www.altfg.com/Stars/s/streetcar-named-desir
  e.jpg
• http//faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/index.ht
  ml
• http//www.worth1000.com/entries/318500/318509YEgd
  _w.jpg
• http//www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_03_img102
  7.jpg
• http//untitled79.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/vert
  igo-still-16.jpg
• http//www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/Films/Phi
  ladelphiaStory.jpg
• http//filmstills5.netfirms.com/lordoft1/lordo45.j
  pg
• http//faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/st
  ills/shower-4.html
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Searchers_(film)
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageClose_up_face.j
  pg
• Source for the remainder of the stills
• http//filmsite.org/