Camera Shots

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Camera shots angles
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6 Basic Camera Shots
Extreme long shot
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000

• Known as an establishing shot, and is done at
  the beginning of a scene to
• provide the viewer with the context of the
  subsequent closer shots.
• Most times is an exterior shot that shows much
  of the locale such as
• architecture and local nature.
• Provides a spatial frame of reference for closer
  shots.
• Necessary to give the viewer a sene of location,
  time and space
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6 Basic Camera Shots
Long shot
Kill Bill (Vol.1) 2003

• Usually, long-shot ranges correspond
  approximately to the distance between
• the audience and the stage in live theater.
• Can also serve as an establishing shot.
• Gives a sense of context and scenery

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6 Basic Camera Shots
Full shot
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965

• A type of long shot that includes the human body
  in full, with the head near the top of the frame
  and the feet near the bottom
• Useful for establishing size relationships
  between characters/objects

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6 Basic Camera Shots
Medium shot
Bridget Joness Diary 2001

• A relatively close shot, revealing the human
  figure from the knees or waist up.
• A functional shot that is used for carrying
  movement and for dialogue.
• Variations include the two-shot, containing
  two-figures from the waist up the three-shot,
  containing three-figures and the
  over-the-shoulder shot containing two figures,
  one with part of his or her back to the camera
  while the other faces the camera.

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6 Basic Camera Shots
Close-up
The Incredibles 2004

• A detailed view of a person or object. A
  close-up of an actor usually includes only his or
  her head.
• Shows very little if any locale and concentrates
  on a relatively small object - the human face,
  for example.
• Because it magnifies the size of an object, the
  close-up tends to elevate the importance of
  things, often suggesting a symbolic significance.

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6 Basic Camera Shots
Extreme close-up
Psycho 1960

• A variation of the close-up shot.
• A minutely detailed view of an object or person.
• Instead of a face, the extreme close-up might
  show only a persons eyes or
• mouth.

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5 Basic Camera Angles
Birds-eye view
Koyaanisqatsi Life Out of Balance 1983

• A shot in which the camera photographs a scene
  from directly overhead.
• Since we seldom see things from this angle,
  filmmakers tend to avoid it because it can be
  disorienting.
• This angle can be highly expressive It permits
  us to hover above a scene.
• Reducing the importance of figures and objects
  like cars and houses making
• them seem antlike and insignificant.

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5 Basic Camera Angles
High-angle shot
North by Northwest 1959

• A shot in which the subject is photographed from
  above.
• Not as extreme and disorienting as a birds-eye
  view.
• Viewers get a general overview of an area.
• Reduces the height of objects and usually
  includes the ground or floor as
• background.
• Movement (in a film) is slowed down.
• The importance of setting or environment is
  increased
• A person seems harmless and insignificant when
  shot from above

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5 Basic Camera Angles
Eye-level shot
The House that Dripped Blood 1970

• The camera is placed approximately five to six
  feet from the ground, corresponding to the height
  of an observer on the scene.
• Used by filmmakers who believe that angles are
  too manipulative. Can give a
• more theatrical staged feeling
• Eye-level shots permit the audience make up our
  own minds about what kind
• of people are being presented.

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5 Basic Camera Angles
Low-angle shot
City of God 2002

• A shot in which the subject is drawn or
  photographed from below.
• Increases height and suggests the superiority of
  the subject and the
• inferiority of the viewer who is made to feel
  insecure and dominated.
• Environment is usually minimized and often the
  sky or a ceiling is the only
• background

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5 Basic Camera Angles
Oblique angle
Shallow Grave 1994

• Drawn as if the shot was photographed by a
  tilted camera.
• People look like theyre about to fall to one
  side.
• Psychologically, oblique shots suggest tension,
  transition and impending
• movement.