Camera Movements
When the camera moves left to right on a pivot.
What is Panning?
A shot balanced with each side reflected one another.
When you place a light at 45 degrees from your subject. As the subject faces the camera, if you position the light at the right angle, you should see the small triangle of light on the opposite side of the subject’s face.
What is Rembrandt Lighting?
When the camera shows as much of the subject or scene as possible.
What is Wide (Full) Shot?
This job is responsible for all photos to be downloaded to the computer in the control room that connects to the monitor in the TV Studio.
What is the Graphics Operator?
When the camera moves upwards and downwards on a pivot.
What is Tilting?
A shot that uses other objects in your photograph to surround the main subject.
What is Framing?
When you place your main light all the way to the side of your subject. The image will have one side well lit and the opposite in shadow.
What is (Dramatic) Split Lighting?
When the camera frames itself really close to an object or subject showing the detail of the object/subject.
What is a Close-Up?
This job is responsible for reporting to the news desk to deliver the news verbally.
What is the News Anchor?
When the whole camera moves left to right (often on wheels).
What is Trucking?
A shot that has paths within the image that takes the viewer's eye to another point in the image, or occasionally, out of the image.
What is Leading Lines?
When you put your key and fill lights at 45 degrees on either side of the subject and powering them so that each meters the same. No shadows will appear on the subject’s face.
What is (Flat) Even Lighting?
When the camera is positioned in between a Wide Shot and Close Up.
What is a Medium Shot?
This job is responsible for adjusting the audio levels and changing which camera is activated during a news show.
What is the Switchboard / Video Board Operator?
When the whole camera moves forwards and backwards (often on wheels).
What is Dollying?
A shot that positions the most important elements in your scene along the lines of a tic-tac-toe grid, or at the points of the grid intersect (the golden rule).
When you angle your lights between 25 and 70 degrees. It is considered a beauty lighting set up. These camera angles create a unique shadow underneath the subjects nose.
What is (Glamour) Butterfly / Paramount Lighting?
When the camera looks upwards at an object / subject.
What is Low Angle (Worm's Eye View)?
This job is responsible for copy editing the news stories and scrolling through the stories during a TV production.
What is the Teleprompter Operator?
When the whole camera moves upwards and downwards (often using a crane).
What is Pedestaling?
When a shot is taken from high above, down at ground level, or from the side.
What is Viewpoint?
When you move your light to one side, usually to the right of the camera, but still have it at a high angle. This style, because of the shadows it creates, gives a sense of depth that other styles don’t have by adding a back light.
When the camera looks downwards at an object/subject.
What is high angle (Bird's Eye View)?
What is the Director?