Topic 2

• Composed of the series of frames that are shot uninterrupted from the moment the camera starts rolling until it stops?

  Camera shot
• An essential aspect of filmmaking and video productions, because by combining different types of shots, angles and camera movements, the filmmakers are able to emphasize specific emotions, ideas and movement for each scene?

  Camera shot
• Types of camera shots?

  Extreme long shot

  Long shot

  Full shot

  Medium shot

  Close-up shot

  Medium close-up shot

  Extreme close-up shot

  Establishing shot
• Makes your subject appear small against their location?

  Extreme long shot
• Used to make your subject feel distant or unfamiliar?

  Extreme long shot
• The same idea, but a bit closer. If your subject is a person then his or her whole body will be in view?

  Long shot
• lets us see the beautiful background imagery and make any big moment more cinematic?

  Long shot
• Focuses more on the character in the frame?

  Full shot
• The character is full body from head to toe again, but the location is no longer the focus?

  full shot
• Shows your character from the waist up?

  Medium shot
• Frames from roughly the waist up and through the torso. So it emphasizes more of your subject while keeping their surroundings visible?

  Medium shot
• Frames the character’s face?

  Close-up shot
• you can see even more detail that tells us how a character feels?

  close-up shot
• Highlights emotional clues in the eyes and you can see a twitch or a tear that you might miss in a medium shot?

  close-up shot
• Halfway between the close-up and the medium shot is the medium close-up that frames the subject from the shoulders up?

  Medium close-up shot
• Frames even tighter on a face (or subject), highlighting facial features more. It usually frames a particular part of the face like the eyes or the mouth?

  extreme close-up shot
• It tells the viewer where in the world the story takes place?

  establishing shot
• It can be an extreme wide shot with a crane or drone to show a particular time period or details of a location?

  establishing shot
• Make an image more aesthetically pleasing and keep the viewer's focus on the framed object(s)?


  camera shot framing
• can be set and framed in any shot size you like, just as long as there is only one character featured within the frame?

  single shots
• There are 2 characters featured in the frame?

  double shot or 2 shot
• features three characters in the frame?

  triple shot shot or 3-shot
• Shows your subject from behind the shoulder of another character?

  over-the-shoulder shot
• Because it emulates perspective, it’s common in conversation scenes?

  over-the-shoulder shot
• •Camera is placed with a character's hip in the foreground, and the focus subject in the plane of acceptable focus?

  over-the-hip shot
• Shows the viewer exactly what that character sees. This transports the audience into that character?

  point of view shot (pov)
• It is the optimal sharpness or clarity of a subject in a camera shot or video shot?


  camera shot focus
• It is the optimal sharpness or clarity of a subject in a camera shot or video shot?


  camera shot focus
• Types of camera shot focus?

  Deep focus

  Shallow focus

  Rack focus

  Soft focus

  Tilt-shift
• Means everything in the frame is sharp and clear. The foreground, mid-ground, and background objects are in focus, giving the frame balance?

  deep focus
• The subject is in focus while the background is out of focus, or blurry?

  Shallow focus
• It is used to direct the eye towards something specific and also to convey emotion?

  shallow focus
• The camera racks or changes focus from one subject to another. One object is sharp while another is out of focus, then the focus is inverted?

  rack focus
• moves the eye from point A to point B and can be used to shift attention?

  rack focus
• Different from shallow focus, gives framing a dreamy quality by adding a glow around an object?

  soft focus
• indicates that the sequence may be fantasy or dream; it’s not entirely real?

  soft focus
• Has the effect of making subjects look like miniatures by dramatically de-focusing parts of the frame?

  Tilt-shift
• can be done in post by simply blurring a photo or video clip, but there are also specialized tilt-shift lenses?


  tilt-shift
• A filmmaking technique that causes a change in frame or perspective through the movement of the camera?

  camera movement
• cinematographers and directors to shift the audience's view without cutting?


  camera movement