TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES

CUShows face or part of face

WHY? Shows emotion,

what character is thinking

/ seeing

TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES

MSMedium Shot

Usually waist to top of head

WHY? Average conversation distance

TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES

MCUMedium Close Up

Somewhere between

CU & MS

TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES

WSWide shot

Shows entire body / location

TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES

Establishing ShotA wide shot showing audience new location / scene change

TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES

XCU/ECUExtreme Close Up

Shows only a piece of face

/ object

WHY? Serious emphasis on emotion or object

TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES

2STWO SHOT – a medium shot

of two people

TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES

POVPOINT OF VIEW – the camera acts as

a person’s (or object’s) eyes

TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES

OTSOver the shoulder shot

- Conversations

- Show perspective

TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES

DUTCH

ANGLECrooked shot

Conveys confusion, chaos

TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES

DUTCH ANGLEThor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0oDm4J3YOg

Battlefield Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8z7-DIa1As

TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES

HIGHANGLEShot from above eye line

Makes person look smaller or weak

TYPES of SHOTS and THEIR USES

LOWANGLEShot from below the eye line

Makes person look taller or more powerful

MOTION /

MOVEMENT

SHOTS

PAN• Horizontal movement from fixed

position

• Why?– Follow

–Reveal or establish location

TILT•Vertical movement from fixed position

ZOOM•enlarges part of an image

ZOOM

DON’T

DOLLY• Camera physically moves closer to or

away from something

• Why?

– follow someone / something

– emphasize an emotion

DOLLY

DOLLY•The Vertigo Shothttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWRncNMEhLw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKJeTaIEldM

TRUCK (or tracking shot / slider)

• “sideways dolly”

• Camera physically moves left or right– To track something / someone

– Reveal something

CRANE / JIB• Technocrane examples

CRANE / JIB

ARC SHOT / ARC DOLLY

• Camera moves around subject in circular path

• Why?

– Reveals something / someone

– Establishes / reveals location

– Amplifies emotion

Cast Away scene

Black Hawk Down

AERIAL / FLYOVER, (DRONE) etc.

• Camera flies over / around something

• Establishing shot

• Shows large scale (battle, landscape, etc)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOomDInRR1o