Cinematography - framing (Audio visual media)

Question 1

What is cinematography?

Answer 1

Camera movement + framing

Question 2

What is framing?

Answer 2

Describes how producers of a text frame a shot

Shot type + camera position included in this

Question 3

What are the basic types of shots?

Answer 3

Close up (CS), medium shot (MS) and long shot (LS)

Can all be modified to makes incremental changes in shot

Question 4

What are the types of shots named for their function?

Answer 4

Point of view shot, two- shot, and an over-the-shoulder shot

Question 5

What is an establishing shot?

Answer 5

Opening shot of a film/sequence

Question 6

What is a two-shot?

Answer 6

Shot that has more than 2 ppl in it

Question 7

What is a point-of-view shot?

Answer 7

Makes us feel like we are seeing events unfold in someone elses eyes

Question 8

What is an over-the-shoulder shot?

Answer 8

Gives a sense of participation in a convo

Question 9

What are all of the camera angles/shots used?

Answer 9

Eye level camera shot, high angle, low angle, canted angle

Worms-eye view, birds-eye view, aerial, crane, and jib shots

Question 10

What are the purposes of eye level, high, and low camera angles?

Answer 10

Eye level = sense of equality
High = Makes subject feel small/inferior
Low = Elevates the subject

Question 11

What are canted angles common in?

Answer 11

Music videos. They’re edgy + disorientating

Question 12

What is the difference between a worms-eye view shot + a birds-eye view shot?

Answer 12

Worms-eye = View of scene from below
Birds-eye = Elevated view from above

Question 13

What is an aerial shot?

Answer 13

Camera angles/movements from high altitudes (e.g. drones)

Question 14

What is a crane shot?

Answer 14

Shot taken by a crane/jib

Question 15

What is a jib shot?

Answer 15

Camera mounted on 1 and of crane + counterweight added on other side