1. Camera Angles and Shots

2. FRAMES-What is taking place within the parameters of the picture/scene
FRAMES-What is taking place within the parameters of the picture/scene. Made-up of Camera Angles/Objects/Border/

3. COMPOSITION OF THE FRAME Camera Angles Straight angle; Straight on

4. COMPOSITION OF THE FRAME Camera Angles Low angle

5. High Angle

6. COMPOSITION OF THE FRAME Canted framing (a. k. a
COMPOSITION OF THE FRAME Canted framing (a.k.a. Dutch angle) Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov) – one of the first films to use Canted angles
Canted framing
Camera not level / not horizontal
Often suggests tension, trouble, distress, etc.

7. CAMERA DISTANCE Camera/Shot Distance or “Type of Shot”
extreme long (ELS)
long (LS)
medium long shot (MLS)
medium (MS)
medium close-up (MCU)
close-up (CU)
extreme close-up (ECU)

8. Extreme long shot (ELS)

9. Long shot (LS)

10. Medium long shot (knees or shins to head; a. k. a
Medium long shot (knees or shins to head; a.k.a. American shot or knee shot)

11. Medium shot (MS)

12. Medium close-up (MCU)

13. Close-up (CU)

14. Extreme close-up (ECU)

15. Mobile Framing: Camera Movements
Pans = rotates horizontally, side to side (“camera rotates on vertical axis”)
Tilts = vertical pivot/rotation, up and down
In pans & tilts, camera does not change position, it pivots or rotates. Usually tripod mounted.
Dolly/tracking/traveling shots
Crane (and “boom” or jib) shots
Hand-held and steadycam shots 15

16. Tracking Shot – Children of Men (2006) Alfonso Cuaron; Steadicam example

17. Subjective shot (or point-of-view shot)
Subjective Shot/Camera: from the position/point of view of a character--as if seeing through character eyes. Also called POV shot. Cinema equivalent of “First Person” in writing.
Some people make distinction between subjective shots & POV shots: use “POV shots” to include “over- the-shoulder” shots--which give a sense of POV without actually being from the position of the character.
But easier & better: treat POV and Subjective as the same; over-the-shoulder as different. 17