framing these are not super precise and there is some discrepency between when one shot ends and...

Framing

These are not super precise and there is some discrepency between when one

shot ends and another begins. You’ll see in the examples.

Establishing Shot

• Usually the first shot of a scene. It is also usually an extremely wide shot or very wide shot. It give you a good idea of the setting things are occurring in.

Extremely Wide Shot

• This is when you pretty much get a landscape of the subject you are trying to film. You can see the subject of focus, but you’re too far out to get much detail.

Very Wide Shot

• A more close up version of extremely wide shot. Now you are close enough to start making out some details.

Wide Shot

• This shows the object, let’s say it’s a person, in their setting and maybe 10 ft. on either side. It’s supposed to just show the subject in their immediate setting and only a little of what is happening around them, not the whole picture.

Medium Shot

• This shot shows about only the subject you’re filming and not really anything aside from that except for what’s right next to them or someone they’re talking too if it’s a person.

Close Up

• This shot only really shows the subject, Justin Bieber.

Extreme Close Up

• This is like a close up but it’s so close it only shows part of the subject, so maybe a face rather than a whole body or this sexy shirt sleeve.

Rule of Thirds

• Divide any shot/image into nine equal parts with two horizontal and two vertical lines that are equally spaced. The focus of the image should rest on a point where the lines intersect, which moving left to right or up or down places the object of focus within a third of the total images’ size. Apparently, pictures are just more interesting this way. You don’t HAVE to do this though.

• Notice that bee with the flower isn’t smack dab in the

middle. There’s some empty space. Interesting?...