Mid Term Flashcards
Taken from a sufficient distance to show a landscape, building or a large crowd
Long shot
Shot taken from a great distance, almost always an exterior shot, shows much of locale
Establishing shot/ extreme long shot
Shot between long and close up might show two people in full figure or several people from waist up
Medium shot
Shot of small object or face that fills screen, adds importance to object photgraphed
Close up
Shot of a small object or part of a face that fills screen
Extreme close up
Usually contains two figures, one with their back to the camera. The other facing the camera
Over the shoulder shot
Camera is placed directly overhead
- extremely diorineting
- viewer is godlike
Birds eye view
- camera looks down at what is being photographed
- takes away power of subject makes if insignificant
High angle
Camera located below subject matter, increases height and power of subject
Low angle
Lateral tilt of the camera so that figures seem to be falling off the screen. Suggests tension and transition. Sometimes used as the point of view of drunks
Oblique angle
Roughly 5 to 6 feet off the ground, the way most people see things
Eye level
Camera moves horizontally on a fixed base
Pan
Camera goes up and down on fixed base
Tilt
The camera moves through space on a wheeler truck, in the same plane
Tracking shot
Cameea moves up and down through space
Boom
Not camera movement, shift in the focal length of the lens to give the impression that the camera is getting closer or further from an object
Zoom
Transition between scenes when one scene ends and another begins
Cut
A gradual transition in which the end of one scene is superimposed over the beginning of a new one
Dissolve
A scene that goes dark or a new one the gradually merged from the darkness
Fade out/ fade in
An optical effect in which one shot appears to push the preceding one from the screen
Wipe
An optical effect I which one shot appears to merge from a shape
Iris
