SHOT TYPES and angles

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Across
  1. 2. Camera placement is on the ground.
  2. 5. The camera is mounted on a harness which prevents any sharp movement, so its like handheld but very smooth, often used in horror (famously in Halloween and The Shining) to signify a supernatural element.
  3. 7. The camera is canted, connoting that something is a little off, a bit weird/strange.
  4. 8. When character A and character B are framed together it tends to signify some type of bond or equivalence. We'll use an Agents of Shield clip as a great example of how this can be very selectively used (Tess of the D'Urbevilles is another).
  5. 9. When the camera moves horizontally without leaving the tripod position to follow a subject.
  6. 11. Camera looks down on subject, signifying them as weak and/or vulnerable.
  7. 14. Films/scenes typically (but not always, there are no fixed RULES, just CONVENTIONS!) open on an --- shot, an extreme long shot that literally sets the scene (the TV drama Tess... is a good example)
  8. 15. A --- close-up shows most of the face, but is more tightly framed than a simple close-up, so either the chin or top of the head are likely to be cropped, strongly conveying emotion and pushing the audience to feel this.
  9. 16. A --- shot is a long shot where the environment is the focus.
  10. 17. Camera looks up to subject, connoting them as powerful and/or menacing.
  11. 18. In a --- field of focus only the foreground (or some part of the frame) is sharply in focus, with the rest blurred to some degree, drawing the viewer's attention to something/someone.
  12. 19. An --- close-up highlights just 1 feature of the face, or very tightly focuses on part of an object. Typically used to force the audience to feel a character's emotion.
Down
  1. 1. Shows the whole of the face, strongly conveying emotion and pushing the audience to focus on this.
  2. 3. The --- shot goes from the knees up (or the equivalent length), and enables fairly strong body language including clearly visible facial expression, but a lot of background detail (dependent on focus!)
  3. 4. Typically used to signify realism, notably in social realist movies (also because its quicker and therefore cheaper!) and action scenes.
  4. 6. The --- shot frames half of the body, so is useful for retaining a lot of body language with tight detail on costume and make-up.
  5. 8. The camera moves to follow a subject
  6. 10. A focus --- is when the focus is moved from the background to the foreground (coming closer instead of further away).
  7. 12. The --- shot is expensive and denotes higher budgets, though convergence has seen it mostly replaced with drone shots (and the CGI recreation of --- shots going through a cityscape has become a cliche of superhero films like Spiderman)!
  8. 13. The rule of --- is a common convention to place the action or important detail in the central third - but this is also often broken to connote tension (or to suit a shot/reverse shot sequence), Hitchcock's North By Northwest being a classic example of how to break this.