Cam shots

Assignment 3: CAM SAMC

Noor Naoum 12 Stephen

Low shotA low angled shot is a shot positioned vertically on the ground and is tilted upwards. This makes the object appear bigger which shows it is either powerful or large.

Establishing shot

An establishing shot is a shot which includes the whole area such as buildings, cars etc.

Long shot

A long shot is a shot taken from a distance to show how large the building is. Long shots could be taken for flowers, buildings, cars etc.

Close up

A close up is a type of shot which frames a person or an object. Close ups are mainly used alongside of medium shots and long shots.

Extreme close up

Extreme Close Up is a shot that is so tight and close that only the small detail could be seen in the object such as the middle of the flower.

Medium close up

Medium Close Up lies half way between a mid shot and a close-up shot. Usually the medium close up tends to cover the subject's head and shoulders.

High shot

A high angle shot is usually taken from above. In movies or pictures the high shot represents that object as being vulnerable, innocent and small.

Wide shot

A wide shot shows large info of the whole image. Like a panoramic photo which captures all of the scene.

POV (point of view)

Shows the persons point of view in the image. E.g. Hands are showing whilst riding a bike and filming. So this portrays the photographers point of view.

Over the shoulder

This implies that 1/3 of the opposite is showing and the main focus is on the opposite person. The persons head and shoulder is blurred so that the main focus would be on the opposite person.

Two shot

A two shot camera angle contains two people in the same scene. These two characters could be having a conversation or even arguing.

Over head shot

An overhead shot is from a birds eye view where the camera is positioned above a person or an object.

Canted/oblique

Camera angle that makes a shot appear tilted which would allow the audience to tilt their heads slightly.

pan

A source of panorama is used to capture the whole scene so the camera movement is coordinated with the movement of the body

Tilt

A tilt Is an image or a scene which is slightly tilted. This would allow the viewers to also tilt, so this engages the viewers.

Track

A track is used to move around the scene with the characters moving. Its called a track because the camera is moving on a track whilst the camera is in a steady position.

Zoom

A zoom moves in onto the object or person who the main focus is on and slightly blurs the background to represent this focus.

Reverse zoom

A reverse zoom is a zoom out which doesn’t have a main focus all of what's captured is focused on.

Dolly

A dolly is used for the movement of the camera. The tripod is placed onto it and the dolly could be pushed anywhere around whilst the camera is steadily positioned on the tripod.

Crane

An overhead crane is used to show an over head view of the scene. This would show the detail in the scene and the amount of people/objects.

Steadicam

The Steadicam stabilises the camera in place it is shown as a smooth shot and moves smoothly with the focus’ movement. It is used when a tripod cannot be used at a high angle so this will keep it steady.

Symmetry

Symmetry is when both sides are symmetrically equal. This building is equal because both sides of it are the same.

Asymmetry

When the two sides are not equally symmetrical. (they don’t look the same) this is called asymmetry.

Rule of thirds

The rule of thirds is a table which measures out the way the image is viewed. This is supposed to portray that the scenes objects are almost equally in line.

Depth of field

Depth of field is the distance between the nearest and the furthest objects that mainly show a focus on the camera.

Shallow focus

A shallow focus mainly focuses on the object and blurs the rest of the background. The focus could be on one character in front of the camera. The focus could also be on people standing in the background and person in front of the camera is blurred out.

Deep focus

Everything has an importance in this picture because everything is focused.

Focus pulls

Focus pulls maintains image sharpness in order for the image to stand out