Film Literature: by Rebecca Pinkerton

Low Shot:

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when the camera is looking up at the object or person being viewed, creating a sense of authority or power.

Point-of-view Shot:

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when the camera is seeing things just as the actor would, a technique used frequently in The Blair Witch Project. It gives the audience a better sense of what the actors feel.

High Shot:

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when the camera is looking down at the object or person being viewed,creating a sense of weakness and powerlessness.

Eye-Level Shot:

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the most common, when we are looking into the eyes of the person in the frame.

Birds-eye Shot:

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when the camera is working down onto the tops of the heads of those in the frame. It creates a sense of distance and allows the viewers to get a whole picture.

Establishing Shot

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an extreme long shot that sets up where the movie is taking place, such as a city.

Over the shoulder Shot:

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a shot with an actor’s shoulder in the foreground, out of focus, typically used during dialogue.

Long Shot:

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a shot in which the full body of the actor is seen, or a doorway, or a room.

Close-up Shot:

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a shot of an actor’s face, usually used for a reaction, or the shot of a cup with the poison in it, etc.

Medium Shot:

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the most commonly used shot in which we see an actor from the knees up if they are standing, or the waist up.

Dutch Tilt:

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is a shot canted angle, oblique angle or German angle, is a type of camera shot where the camera is set at an angle on its roll axis so that the shot is composed with vertical lines at an angle to the side of the frame.

Extreme Close Up:

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a shot of an actor’s eye, or the poison going into the cup.

Reaction Shot:

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when the camera holds on a close-up of the face of a person reacting to what just happened.

Synchronous sound:

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sounds that are synchronised with what can be seen on the screen, adding to the realism of the shot.

Dolly:

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a movement on a mobile platform in a specified direction.

Asynchronous sound:

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sound effects that do not match what the audience can see on-screen.

Arc Shot:

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the camera moves closer or further from the subject while simultaneously adjusting the zoom angle to keep the subject the same size in the frame. The effect is that the subject appears stationary while the background size changes.

Pan:

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when the camera stays in one spot, and while remaining stationary, follows the movements of an actor or a thing to the left or right.