1. Camera Shots

2. What are we trying to accomplish today?
Objective: Gain a better understanding of different camera shots and angles and their uses in film.
Essential Question: Why would it be important to know different camera angles when we are filming a video or movie?

3. Extreme Wide Shot/ Establishing Shot
Give us the big picture
Shows location or setting
If people are in the shot, they are usually very small

4. Establishes characters in their world
Long Shot/ Far Shot
Establishes characters in their world
Used when we need to see what characters are doing in their environment

5. Full body shot of the character
There is some space above and below the character. No part of the body is cropped off.
Shot is used to show the character and what they are doing… less about the environment.
Full Shot

6. All of these shots could be considered
“wide shots”
All of these shots are consistently at a wide angle and show much of the environment

7. Medium Shot Usually Shows the characters from the waist up
Gives a nice view of the character without being TOO close
Still plenty of room for characters to move and gesture
Medium Shot

8. Variations of the Medium Shot cut the characters off at the knees

9. Close Up Shot
Usually a full head shot- sometimes part of the head is cropped off
Very intimate- tells us how a character is feeling or what they are thinking
Tells us the important things we need to know to understand the story

10. Variations of this shot also cut off around the ribs

11. Extreme CloseUp Sometimes used for an extremely dramatic moment
Can be used to convey really important information
Usually covers the majority of the frame- not much background
Can be used to focus on emotion

12. NAME THAT SHOT!

13. Moving on to angles!

14. Camera is level to the ground and parallel to the subject
Straight On
Camera is level to the ground and parallel to the subject

15. Camera points up at the subject
Up Shot/ Low Angle
Camera points up at the subject
Places the viewer below psychologically

16. Down Shot/ High Angle The Camera is angled down towards the subject
Places the viewer above psychologically

17. Extreme version of a Down Shot Camera points almost completely down
Bird’s Eye View
Extreme version of a Down Shot
Camera points almost completely down

18. Worm’s Eye View Extreme version of the up shot or low angle
Camera points almost entirely up

19. Over The Shoulder
Most widely used method of shooting a conversation scene
Shows good facial expression as characters are conversing, as well as show different character vantage points.
Can show close-up or far away

20. A shot with only one person!

21. Shot with two people in it

22. (Are you getting the hang of this?)
3 Shot
3 People in it!
(Are you getting the hang of this?)

23. Three or more people in the shot
Group Shot
Three or more people in the shot

24. A NEW ROUND OF NAME THAT SHOT!

26. Usually the camera is sitting on the ground
Low Angle
Usually the camera is sitting on the ground

27. Allows the audience to put themselves in the character’s shoes
Point of View
Allows the audience to put themselves in the character’s shoes

28. Rack Focus
Shifts the focus from the foreground to the background (or vice versa)
Helps the audience shift their focus from one subject to another

29. Shots with layers of subjects and details help create depth in a scene, drawing the audience’s eye.
Do you think the layers in a shot make things more or less interesting? Why or why not?

30. Horizon lines will either be above or below the subject
Rule of Thirds
If your subject is dead center, your shot will look mechanical or overdone
Think of it like a tic- tac-toe board. Your subject should be in a spot that intersects, rather than in the middle of the square
Horizon lines will either be above or below the subject
Notice that the plane (which is the subject) is more to the right rather than being centered.

31. DO THESE SHOTS FOLLOW THE RULE OF THIRDS?

32. The Rule of the Triangle
This technique has been used for hundreds of years by artists
The triangle draws the audience’s eye- keeps the eye moving.
Really good to use when trying to put focus on a particular character
Also great to use when trying to show multiple characters in conversation

33. When putting together a film, it is important to know that every shot that you create should hold some sort of purpose.
Why?

34. Let’s Take a Look at What the Importance May be in Some of These Different Screen Shots