Shot Types
Camera Movement
Miscellaneous
100

A wide view of the complete setting, In human terms, a person would be barely visible in the scene.

Extreme Wide Shot

100
A vertical pan that is often used to show a subject’s superiority or power (by starting at ground level and titling up to the top)
Tilt
100
What is the Rule that involves dividing a shot into a grid in order to determine what the viewers eyes will be drawn to?
Rule of Thirds
200
Defined by some as not too close, not too far. On the human body this shot would start around the waist and include a little space above the head
Medium Shot
200
The camera is mounted on wheels or rails to allow it to physically move through space.
Dolly Shot
200
What is the name of a shot used to set the scene?
Establishing shot
300
Shows the detail of a subject or a face, often used to show emotion.
Close up
300
allows the camera operator to start with a wide angle (extreme long or long shot) and ‘go in tight’ to a narrow angle (close up or extreme close up) - or vice versa.
Zoom
300
A short film scene or shot that shows what a character (the subject) is looking at (represented through the camera)
Point of View Shot
400
Shows only a portion of detail or magnifies something that is minute
Extreme Close up
400
allow cameras to move both vertically and horizontally through space
Crane Shot
400
Consistency of the characteristics of persons, plot, objects, places and events seen by the reader or viewer.
Continuity
500

A great deal of information about the setting is still visible. Human characters can be seen and almost all of the body is in the frame.

Medium long shot

500
Another name for a Dolly Shot
Tracking Shot
500

A technique in which the camera zooms in on the main image or character while the camera is dollied away or toward the same subject so that the focus remains sharp while the background is flattened or sharpened.

Zolly Shot

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