Camera Angles!

o Middle Shot - Shows some part of the subject in more detail while still giving an impression of the whole subject.

o Long Shot - The subject takes up the full frame, or at least as much as comfortably possible.

o Close Up - A certain feature or part of the subject takes up the whole frame.

o Extreme Close Up - The ECU gets right in and shows extreme detail.

o Over-the-Shoulder Shot - Looking from behind a person at the subject.

o Point-of-View Shot - Shows a view from the subject's perspective.

o Low-angle shot - A shot from a camera positioned low on the vertical axis, anywhere below the eye line, looking up.

o High angle shot - A shot from a camera positioned high on the vertical axis, anywhere above the eye line, looking down.

o Worm's-eye view - A shot from a camera from below, as though the observer were a worm.

o Bird's-eye view - A shot from a camera from above, as though the observer were a bird.

o Panning - A movement which scans a scene horizontally. The camera is placed on a tripod, which operates as a stationary axis point as the camera is turned, often to follow a moving object which is kept in the middle of the frame.

o Tracking - The camera is placed on a moving vehicle and moves alongside the action, generally following a moving figure or object.

o Tilt - The camera tilts up or down, rotating around the axis that runs from left to right through the camera head.

o Dutch Tilt - The camera shot in which the camera angle is deliberately slanted to one side.

o Shot reverse shot - Film technique where one character is shown looking at another character, and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.

o The 180° rule - Basic guideline in film making that states that two characters in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line.

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