This document defines and describes different types of camera shots including establishing shots, wide shots, long shots, mid shots, close ups, extreme close ups, point of view shots, over the shoulder shots, two shots, aerial shots, and overhead shots. Each shot type is used to frame subjects, characters, or scenes in a particular way to convey specific information to the viewer.

1. Assignment 4: Camera shots,
camera angles, camera movement,
composition
Chelsea Fashole-Luke

2. Level: Yellow

3. Camera Shots
• Establishing shot
• Wide shot
• Long shot
• Mid/medium shot
• Close up shot
• Extreme close up shot
• Point of view
• Over the shoulder
• Two shot
• Aerial shot
• Overhead shot

4. Establishing Shot
• An establishing shot
establishes the setting
of a scene.
• Gives the viewer an idea
of where it is set.

5. Wide Shot
• A wide shot is like a
panoramic
photograph. It is a
wide shot.
• Shows a wide piece of
information about a
scene.

6. Long Shot
• Long shots are the framing of
the character or subject’s
whole body.
• Usually used to show actions
in a character or object.

7. Mid/Medium shot
• This is the framing of
usually, a characters
torso and head or torso
and legs.
• It can be used to show
facial expression
and/or gesture, but
mostly for dialogue.

8. Close up shot
• A close up frame of a subject or character,
or a particular part of an object or
character’s body. Eg. Face, arm, feet or
details of an object.

9. Extreme close up
• An extreme close up shot is a shot of a part of the
body or face to allow the audience to view
extreme details of a character or object.

10. Point of view
• A point of view shot shows the
view from the characters
perspective. It is dependant on
body language and the
movement and placement of
the camera to match the
characters movement.

11. Over the shoulder
• An over the shoulder shot is filmed from behind one
characters shoulder, looking over to the
character or object over their shoulder.
• It usually shows a conversation between two
characters.
• The character facing the object has a 1:3 ratio of the
screen.

12. Two shot
• Two shots are a shot of two interacting characters
or objects usually to show a relationship
between the two.

13. Aerial shot
• A shot taken from quite a high
overhead distance, such as
from a helicopter or airplane.

14. Overhead shot
• A camera shot where the shot is
taken from above a character
action or object.