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• Type of shots~ establishing shot

  a.k.a extreme long shot and is a shot taken from a great distance, almost always an exterior shot
• Type of shots~ long shot


  shot taken from a sufficient distance to show a landscape, a building, or people
• Types of shots~ medium shot


  shot between a long shot and a close up that might show people from the waist up
• Types of shots~ POV shots 


  shot taken from the point of the character or the character's eye level (very common shot)
• Types of shots~ over the shoulder shot

  shot usually contains 2 figures, one with back to the camera and other facing the camera
• Duration of the shots~ vary in time


  quick= less than 1 second, average= more than 1 second but less than 1 minute, lengthy= more than 1 minute
• Angle of Framing~ Bird's eye view


  camera is directly overhead (viewer is godlike, disorienting, and usually for supernatural elements)
• Angle of Framing~ high angle


  camera looks down at what is being photographed (takes way power of the subject and makes it insignificant)
• Angle of Framing~ low angle


  camera is located below subject matter (increases height and power of subject)
• Angle of Framing~ oblique angle


  lateral tilt of the camera so that figures appear to be falling out of the frame (tension or transition)
• Decor


  important element of putting in the scene. The objects contained in and the setting of a scene (decor can be used to amplify a character's emotion or the mood of the film)
• Lighting~ high key


  avoids contrast between the light and dark areas of a shot (with prominent fill light)
• Lighting~ low key

  great deal of contrast between dark and light areas (making artistic use of deep shadows)
• Sound~ voice over


  voice, often the character in the film, is heard while we see an image of a space and time in which that character is not speaking
• Editing~ cut


  transition between scenes when one scene ends and another one begins (most common)