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?...