Camera Shot Sizes
This shot size establishes the location of the film.
What is the Establishing Shot?
This framing is usually done at the shoulder level and is used for conversation scenes.
What is an Over the Shoulder (OTS)?
This type of camera angle has the camera pointed up at the subject making them look big and powerful.
What is a Low Angle?
This is when everything in the shot is in focus.
What is Deep Focus?
This is when you use no camera gear at all and just hold the camera.
What is Handheld?
This leg of the Exposure Triangle controls the Depth of Field.
What is Aperture?
This shot size is framed on a body part or object as close as possible.
What is an Extreme Close Up?
This framing is used when there are too many people in the shot to count.
What is a Crowd Shot?
This type of camera angle has the camera pointed down at the subject making them look small and weak.
What is a High Angle?
This is when nothing in the shot is in focus.
What is Soft Focus?
Three legged device you place the camera on so it doesn't move.
What is a Tripod?
This leg of the Exposure Triangle controls the Motion Blur.
What is Shutter Speed?
This shot size frames a subjects entire body from head to toe.
What is a Full Shot?
This kind of framing has only one person is in the shot and there are no body parts of anyone else showing.
What is a Clean Single shot?
This type of camera angle has the camera slightly crooked to create confusion or tension in the scene.
What is a Dutch Angle?
This is when only a small area of the shot is in focus.
What is Shallow Focus?
This gear is used to allow the camera to either move up or down.
What is a Pedestal?
This leg of the Exposure Triangle controls the camera's light sensitivity.
What is ISO?
This shot size frames a subject from about mid-thigh to the top of the head.
What is a Cowboy Shot?
This type of framing is used to show someone's perspective.
What is a Point of View (POV) Shot?
This type of camera angle is when a high angle goes all the way up to 90 degrees.
What is an Overhead Shot?
This is when the focus changes during the shot.
What is Rack Focus?
This gear is used to swing the camera around if the scene takes place in a wide area.
What is a Crane/Jib?
This type of Composition aligns the important subjects using a 3x3 Tic-Tac-Toe grid.
What is The Rule of Thirds?
This shot size frames the subject from about mid-chest to the top of the head.
What is a Medium Close Up?
This type of framing has 2 subjects in the shot and there is the body part of someone else in the shot as well.
What is a Dirty 2-Shot?
This type of camera angle is when the camera is set to the same level as the subject eye height.
What is an Eye Level Shot?
This is using a special lens to put two completely different areas in focus at the same time.
What is a Split Diopter?
This gear is mounted on a persons body and pointed at their face to give their perspective.
What is a Snorricam?
This type of Composition uses patterns or pathways to guide the eye toward the subject.
What are Leading Lines?
This shot size shows where all the characters are in relation to each other in a scene.
What is the Master Shot?
This shot is very similar to an extreme close-up and is used to highlight in important object in the scene.
What is an Insert Shot?
This type of camera height shot was made popular from the Western film genre.
What is a Hip Level Shot?
This is a special lens to blur the sides of the shot and can make the characters look like mini figurines.
What is a Tilt Shift?
This gear is used to move the camera smoothly on wheels.
What is a Dolly?
This type of Composition is a mathematical spiral pattern that is also known as "The Golden Ratio."
What is The Fibonacci Sequence?