Fundamental of shot

Fundamentals of the Shot

Objectives

• Understand the difference between scenes and shots.

• Visualize a scene in terms of framing, angles, and movement.

• Understand illustrating camera and character movement.

What Is a Scene?

• A combination of shots that shoes the action that takes place in one location or setting

What Is a Shot?

• A continuous view filmed from one perspective

Shot Descriptions

• Camera framing

– How close or far a subject is from the camera

• Camera angles

– Angling of the camera from which you view the subject.

• Camera movement

– The movement of the camera forward, backward, left, right, up, and down

Camera Framing

• Extreme long shot

• Long shot

• Full shot

• Medium shot

• Close-up shot

• Establishes the location or setting

• Example: Western landscape

• Shows the location, characters, and action

• Example: soccer field and its players

• Frames the entire height of a person, with the head near the top of the frame and the feet near the bottom

• Frames an individual from either the waist up, or from the knees showing the audience just enough to feel as if they are looking at the whole subject

• Shows a character from the shoulders to the top of the head