Framing Techniques (shot selection)
This is a shot in which there is one and only one character present in the shot.
What is a one shot?
This angle is the most popular angle and helps the viewer to best identify with the character.
What is the eye level shot?
This is the kind of shot that has no movement in it.
What is a static shot?
This is when the shot moves from left to right on the screen but the camera stays in the same position.
What is a pan?
The basic shot used to tell the viewer the location and setting of the scenes to come.
What is the wide shot or establishing shot?
This framing technique represents what a person involved in the film is seeing at that exact moment.
What is a POV (point of view) shot?
This angle might be known as a "bird's eye view."
What is an overhead shot?
This is when the camera physically moves toward the subject being framed.
What is a push in?
This shot moves vertically on the screen. The whole camera physically moves up and down to get the shot.
What is a boom shot?
This is the framing technique 'secretly' used to watch Truman in 'The Truman Show'.
What is the POV (point of view)?
This is a shot of a single object that is being referred to somehow in the film, or is a part of the setting.
What is an insert shot?
This angle looks down on and 'diminishes' the subject of the shot.
What is the high angle?
This is what it is called when the camera rotates around the subject of the shot?
What is an arc?
This is the name of the shot that happens if the camera follows a character as they walk into the distance.
What is a tracking shot?
What it's called when zooming in or out happens really fast.
What is a crash zoom?
This is a "dirty" shot that tends to happen during conversations, where we get the perspectives of each side in the conversation. The non-speaker is only partially included in the shot.
What is OTS (over the shoulder)?
This is the camera angle you would use if you're trying to portray the authority or power of the character in the frame.
What is the low angle shot?
This is often called a 'handheld shot' because of the way the shot looks on the screen.
What is a random movement shot?
This is what it is called when the camera turns 360 degrees from the same fixed position.
What is camera roll?
A pan-tilt is this kind of camera technique.
What is a camera movement technique?
This is what a shot is called when there are two people clearly in the shot. The third person in the background is blurry.
What is a dirty two shot?
This camera angle tends to create a kind of anxiety by making the shot diagonal, off-centered.
What is the Dutch angle?
This is when the camera pushes toward the subject of the shot, while at the same time zooming out.
What is the dolly zoom?
What it usually is when the image on the screen is seen over a sizable distance as it enlarges.
What is a zoom in?
You'd most likely use this angle shot if you were trying to portray a belly dancer.
What is a hip level shot?