Kinds of Shots
A shot that frames the character from approximately the waist up
What is a medium shot?
When something in the foreground is in focus but the background is out of focus.
What is shallow depth of field?
The amount of space between the top of a character’s head and the top of the video frame.
What is headroom?
Side-to-side movement of the front of the camera.
What is panning?
The work that takes place following the completion of principal photography.
What is "post"?
This type of shot can be used to show a face, a hand, or many other things in close detail.
What is a close-up (CU)?
"Wild Sound," "Ambient Sound," and "Filler" are all alternative terms for this.
What is "room tone"?
The ideal place for lead room when your actor in the frame is facing left.
What is more "blank" space on the left side of the frame?
A camera movement you might use to emphasize that your character is becoming emotional.
What is a dolly in?
Getting as many different shot types and angles needed to record all action happening in scene.
What is coverage?
This shot is most likely to be used as an establishing shot.
What is a wide shot?
This camera function controls the color.
What is "White Balance"?
If you’ve activated the proper feature on the camera, then everything that’s in focus will be outlined in this color.
What is red?
In most films, there are typically more of these kinds of shots, as opposed to moving shots.
What are stationary shots?
If you break this rule while filming two characters, they will both be facing the same direction in the edit.
What is the 180O rule/jumping the line?
In this type of shot, framed up behind one actor, we only see one actor's face.
What is an OTS?
This object is used to fix the color in editing if the white balance didn't work properly.
What is a grey card?
This is what should be done when focusing the camera on a person.
What is zooming in to the person's face and focusing on that?
Something you should not do if you're operating your camera handheld and trying to keep the shot as steady as possible.
What is setting up the shot with the LCD monitor?
The food and drink provided to the actors and crew
What are craft services?
You should always make sure to get a shot like this when filming/emphasizing a character's emotional reaction to something.
What is a shot of the actor's face showing little to no emotion?
Something you would not do when trying to achieve shallow depth of field in a shot.
What is zooming out as far as possible?
What you would be trying to achieve if you: made sure the main subject of a shot is a good distance from the background, made sure you are not pulled out too much with your zoom lens, and made sure your camera's iris is as open as possible.
What is shallow depth of field?
The rule that states: When you’re getting two successive shots of the same actor and you want to have at least a 30-degree difference in filming angle from one shot to the next.
What is the 30o rule?
The purpose of making a noise when closing the clapboard’s “sticks” just before the director calls “Action!”
What is syncing video and audio?