Types of shots every Filmmakers Should Know – Film MakingTips
- Medium shot
now this is about connecting the audience with
your characters so when you think about framing you're gonna frame them from
the waist and the waist this is going to be basically what it looks like to
have a conversation with someone so if you're having two characters engage in a
dialogue that'll be the shot you want to go to you shot there wait for it close
up on your subject this is usually meant for any situation where you're wanting
to convey serious emotion between two characters or two subjects
now if the medium shot is gonna be from the waist up and the
clothes up is gonna be of the face then the medium close up is gonna be from
the torso up this is the ideal shot for a reaction it puts the viewer right in
the same space as your character and consider that reaction and emotional
payoff for whatever just happened to them in the story the medium.
- Close-up
wide shot the wide shot is perfect because it shows the characters environment what's around them immediately if you're ever filming a walk and talk or an action scene they'll most likely want to use a wide shot to get everything that you want all the information in the shot.
Types of shots
- Dutch angle shot
- Shoulder shot
- Birds eye view
- Master shot
- Point of view
- High angle shot
- Low angle shots
- Hip shots
- Kneee level shots
- Ground shot
- Aerial shot
- Close up
- Extreme wide shot
- Extreme long shot
- Medium shot
- Full shot
- Long shot
- Full Shots
The Full Frames Characters in the head to toes , the emphasis tends to be the actions and moments rather than a characters
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- High Angle Shot
High angle shot is photographed the subject is above from the eye, makinga the seem weak or frightend this can have effected to making the subjects .
- The extreme wide or the extreme long
this is taken from a
long distance and think of it as a way to impress your audience and showing the
scale and scope of the world that you've created for those characters most of
the establishing shots that you see are extremely wide which reminds me one of the
beauties of thoughtful cinematography and direction is using shots to inform
your viewer with no dialogue or narration the establishing shot is the perfect
way to set the scene letting your audience know this is where our characters
are and this is where the scene will play out this is to take the audience
moving them with the character through the scene usually showing off a multitude
Different characters and different things happening there
are several ways you can do this you can use a gimbal a Steadicam you can even
use rollerblades or you can go handheld if you want to see some examples of
good long tape here are some directors that have really perfected the art of
this camera move now this is a more niche type of shot you won't see this in
everything and you're certainly not going to see this in the super serious or
dramatic scene a lot of the time the shot is meant for laughs and a lot of the
time the character ends up looking at the camera breaking the fourth wall but
the point is to alert the audience to whatever you want them to look at point
of view
- Point of view
flips the camera into the hands of the audience kind of
the camera moves and breathes as if it's one of the characters in the film this
is a brilliant way to put the viewer in the driver's seat and demonstrate how a
character sees the world through their perspective now there are entire movies that
are shot like this but the technique works like a charm when you throw it into
the right plates don't be afraid of point of view shots highly underrated
highly under.
