Basic Shots
Angles
Camera Movement
Special Techniques
Identify The Shot!
100

This shot is often used to generate strong emotions by filling the frame with an actor's face.

What is a CLOSE-UP SHOT?

100

This angle allows the viewer to see things from a character's perspective.

What is a POINT OF VIEW SHOT?

100

A type of camera movement in which the camera is placed on a tripod, operating as a stationary axis point, and the lens is turned left or right.

What is a PAN?

100

A fast stylized movement that blurs the image between the two resting shots and can therefore be used to hide a cut.

What is a WHIP PAN?

100

What is an EXTREME CLOSE-UP?

200

A shot that captures the actor from roughly their waist up.

What is a MEDIUM SHOT?

200

This angle is often used to make a subject seem vulnerable, smaller, weaker, and/or insignificant.

What is a HIGH ANGLE SHOT?

200

A shot where the camera moves forward, towards a subject, or backwards, away from a subject.

What is a DOLLY SHOT?

200

This camera technique allows the director to change the focal point of the shot without physically moving the camera, creating two shots in one setup.

What is a RACK FOCUS?

200

What is an OVERHEAD SHOT?

300

This shot is taken from a great distance and is often used to show the expansive landscape.

What is an EXTREME WIDE SHOT?

300

This angle creates a dramatic effect that is used to portray unease, disorientation, frantic or desperate action, intoxication, and/or madness.

What is a DUTCH TILT?

300

This dynamic shot physically moves the camera through the scene, usually following the movement of your subject.

What is a TRACKING SHOT?

300

Directors use this technique to allow the action to play out in real-time, making the viewer feel more immersed in the content.

What is a LONG TAKE?

300

What is a WIDE SHOT?

400

This shot is often used to film two characters in conversation, connecting them.

What is an OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT?

400

This camera angle is often used to convey a character's power.

What is a LOW ANGLE SHOT?
400

This camera movement is not tilting, but physically moving the camera up or down.

What is PEDESTAL?

400

This technique was popularized by Alfred Hitchcock for his film Vertigo (1958) to convey dizziness and is now often used to convey moment of sudden realization in a character or create a sense of unease in the viewer.

What is a DOLLY ZOOM?

400

What is a Full Shot?

500

This shot is used to introduce viewers to the setting.

What is an ESTABLISHING SHOT?

500

The best camera height to capture a two-shot where one subject is seated while the other is standing

What is a HIP LEVEL SHOT?

500

A shot that uses a special piece of equipment that allows the camera operator to smoothly move the camera through twist, turns, stairs, and other rough terrain.

What is a STEADICAM SHOT?

500

This technique, in which the image is magnified, is often used in amateur works and documentaries but not often narrative films.

What is ZOOM?

500

What is a LOW ANGLE SHOT?

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