Framing
Angle
Movement
Close up/extreme close up shot
· Shows facial expressions/emotions
· Makes someone feel important/dominant
Long shot
· Shows body language
· Allows us to see a person in relation to their surroundings
Medium shot
· Shows facial expressions/emotions AND body language
Two shot
· Shows the relationship between two people
Establishing shot
· Establishes the setting e.g. place, time, setting, weather etc
POV shot
· Puts the audience in the characters shoes
Eye level shot
· Allows the situation to remain neutral/objective (not manipulate the situation)
Birds eye view shot
· Allows us to see something in its larger surroundings (sets scene it’s in)
· Makes something look small or insignificant
Low angle
· Makes people look large, tall, dominant, powerful etc
· Dramatic
High angle
· Makes people look small, vulnerable, weak, innocent
· Positions the audience to feel sympathy
Canted/Dutch angle
· Makes people or situations look distorted, chaotic, drunk, drugged, dizzy etc
Tracking/dolly shot
· Used when a character is moving
· Shows more than one thing in a scene, or how different things are arranged or related
· Shows someone’s journey
Handheld shot
· Shows action, drama, urgency
· Used in fast paced scenes
· Helps put the audience into the scene
Shallow focus
· Makes someone seem important
· Draws the audience’s attention to something
Deep focus
· Shows surroundings
· Represents everyone as important
Pull focus
· Changes where the audience is looking
· Draws our attention to something else in the frame (possibly more important)
Zoom in
· Focuses our attention on someone/something
Zoom out
· Shows the bigger picture/surroundings (can help set scene)
Trombone/vertigo shot/dolly zoom
· Shows dramatic reactions/major events
Pan left/right
· Shows where something/someone is going
· Shows something just out of the shot etc
Tilt up/down
· Shows the whole of an object or person, revealing a bit at a time
· Makes it seem like someone/the audience are ‘looking’ at something e.g. objectifying it
Crane up/down
· Makes the scene seem dramatic
· Draws attention to someone’s isolation
Random motion
· Provides shot with motion/energy
· Makes it come alive
360 degree shot
· Shows a person/thing or event from all angles
· Helps the audience see exactly what’s going on in more depth
Comments