2. Camera shots
Establishing shot
Wide shot
Long shot
Mid/Medium shot
Close up shot
Extreme close up shot
POV (Point of view)
Over the shoulder shot
Two shot
Overhead shot
4. Wide shot
A wide shot is a large amount of
information which could be
similar to a panoramic shot.
Establishing shots could most of
the time be wide shots.
7. Close up
Framing a subject
or a person on a
particular part of
an object or body
closely.
8. Extreme Close Up
Extreme Close Up is a shot that
is so tight and close that only
the small detail could be seen in
the object such as the middle of
the eye.
9. POV (point of view)
Shows the persons point of
view in the image. E.g. Hands
are showing whilst riding a bike
and filming. So this portrays the
photographers point of view.
10. Over The Shoulder Shot
This shot is taken from the
back of someone’s shoulder.
The person who is opposite
occupies 1/3 part of the
image because they are the
main focus.
11. Two Shot
A two shot camera angle
contains two people in
the same scene. These
two characters could be
having a conversation or
even arguing.
12. Overhead shot
An overhead shot is
from a birds eye view
where the camera is
positioned above a
person or an object.
14. High
A high angle shot is
usually taken from
above. In movies or
pictures the high
shot represents
that object as
being vulnerable,
innocent and small.
15. Low
A low angled shot is a shot
positioned vertically on the
ground and is tilted upwards.
This makes the object/person
appear bigger which shows it
is either powerful or large.
18. Pan
A source of panorama is used to
capture the whole scene so the camera
movement is coordinated with the
movement of the body
19. Tilt
When the camera either comes
vertically from bottom to top or
from top to bottom to expose
more information either about
an object or a person.
20. Track
Track is moving the camera very smoothly and it’s a side to side
movement without a pivot following the object or person.
21. Zoom
When the camera zooms in towards the person or the object showing
greater detail.
22. Reverse Zoom
Reverse zoom is in opposition to zooming in. reverse zoom is mainly
known as ‘zoom out’ which gradually zooms out of a detailed object
or a person.
23. Dolly
• Whilst the camera
zooms in and out
it was moving
around steadily
and placed on a
tripod.
25. Symmetry Balance
Symmetry is when
both sides are
symmetrically
equal. This building
is equal because
both sides of it are
the same.
26. Asymmetry
When the two sides are not
equally symmetrical. (they
don’t look the same) this is
called asymmetry. In filming
this is usually chaotic scenes,
disorder either a person or
an object.
27. Rule Of Thirds
Rule of thirds is an image
divided into 9 boxes with
equally spaced horizontal
lines and two equally spaced
vertical lines this portrays that
most of the image is on an
equal line.
28. Shallow Focus
• A shallow focus
mainly focuses
on the object
and blurs the
rest of the
background.it is
slightly a small
depth of field
