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Page 1: Final cinematography notes
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EX

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Contains a vast amount of scenery.

This is usually used to establish the setting.

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LO

NG

SH

OT

Contains a sufficient amount of landscape, that establishes a more elaborate setting.

Used to demonstrate where the action will occur.

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MED

IUM

SH

OT

Displays the upper half of a character’s body.

Used to define a more clear picture of a character.

Also referred to as the social shot.

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CLO

SE U

P

Displays only the face of the character.

This allows the emotions of the character to convey to the audience

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SE-U

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Shows a part of a character’s face or an object

Intensifies the mood of the audience

Commonly used in horror films

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BIR

DS

EY

E V

IEW

Looks directly down upon a scene

Used along with long shot, to establish a setting.

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HIG

H A

NG

LE

When the camera looks down upon a subject

It makes a character appear vulnerable

Commonly used to show a character’s perspective

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EY

E L

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EL

This angle is basically face-to-face. Keeping contact with the characters to make the viewers feel as if they are part of the story.

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LO

W A

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LE

A low angle shot is a shot from an angle below form the vertical axis.

Anywhere below the eye looking up.

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OB

LIQ

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AN

GLE

Suggest an imbalance, the camera is not placed horizontal to floor level. It also suggest instability.

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CR

AN

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HO

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A crane shot is a shot that is taken on a crane. The most obvious uses are to view the actors from above or to move up or away from them.

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PA

NS

The horizontal rotation of the camera. The camera refers to someone shaking their head “no”.

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TILT

S

The vertical rotation of the camera as if the viewer is nodding.

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DO

LLY

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OTS

The dolly zoom is an unsetting in camera effect that appears to undermine normal visual perception.

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HA

ND

-HELD

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OTS

Hand-held is a technique in which the camera is held in the camera operator’s hand as oppose to being mounted on a tri-pod or any other base.