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 Long 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
Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film: * voices of characters * sounds made by objects in the story * music represented as coming from instruments in the story space ( = source music) This sound is any sound presented as originated from source within the film's world
Diegetic Sound
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