1. Camera Shots and Angles
Film Study
Camera Shots and Angles

2. Extreme Close Up
Focuses on one thing in great detail, it is even closer than a close up.

3. Close Up
Contains no background, focuses on the entire object or a persons head and shoulders.
It may reveal human emotions or private information.

4. Medium Shot Person is seen from the waist up.
If there are two people in a shot it is called a ‘two shot’, three people are a ‘three shot’.

5. Long Shot
Contains a lot of landscape or background and figures in the scene are recognisable as being human, male or female.

6. Establishing Shot (Extreme Long Shot)
Contains a lot of landscape and gives important information about the setting and atmosphere at the beginning of a scene.

7. High Angle Shot
The camera looks down on the subject.
This makes it look smaller – gives the audience a sense of power or the subject a sense of hopelessness.

8. Low Angle Shot The camera looks up at the subject.
This makes the subject seem important, powerful or larger than the viewer.

9. Eye Level Angle
The audience sees things from the characters eye level.
It makes them feel more comfortable.

10. Dutch Angle or Canted Camera
Central frame is unbalanced
Subjective viewpoint
Ex. Person who is drunk
Ex. Symbolic imbalance
Ex. World lacks harmony or balance

11. Reaction Shot
Show the effect that someone’s words/actions have on another individual
Could be a close up or a medium shot in order to catch body language

12. Over the Shoulder/Reverse Shot
The camera shoots from behind a character’s shoulder, and is used mostly during conversations.
Aimed nearly 180 degrees opposite to each other.
Allows the audience to feel more involved.

13. DIAGETIC SOUND
A sound that other characters would be able to hear. For example: A song on a radio, for instance, as a character drives down the highway, would be a diegetic sound, as would someone coughing audibly during a scene.

14. NON-DIAGETIC SOUND
Any voice, musical passage or sound effect that comes from outside the world of the movies; For example: like background music, for instance or a voice over. If the characters can't hear the sound, it's non-diegetic.

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16. Close Up

17. Establishing Shot or Extreme Long Shot

18. High Angle Shot (close up)

19. Long Shot

20. Low Angle Shot (close up)

21. Medium Shot

22. Low Angle Shot (close up)

23. Establishing Shot or Extreme Long Shot

24. Long Shot

25. High Angle (long) Shot

26. Long Shot

27. Over-the-shoulder shot