CAMERA SHOTS

What are camera shots?

A camera shot is how much space you see in one shot or frame. Camera shots are used so that they shape the film, and make the audience understand how that person is feeling, or whats happening. It gives the film a clearer understanding, and brings it too life.

Extreme long shot

An extreme long shot shows a huge amount of landscape, this is usually done at the beginning of a film, so that the audience knows were the location is set and were it's taking place.As you can see in this picture you can see the whole of New York. This is an example of a extreme Long Shot because you can see a vast area of land.

Long shot

A long shot is like a setting location it helps set the scene. Sometimes it can have characters like in this image, this image is of a wedding, as you can see it looks like it in the middle of a forest, but from this image you get a more detailed description of the location than from an extreme long shot.

Mid shot

A mid shot contains the character or characters from the waist up.this is normally used in conversation. From this shot you get to see the expressions on the characters faces as well as how they see the other characters as well.Background detail aren't  important in this shot as the location has probably  already been established in a earlier shot.

Close up

The shot shows very little background and  focuses mainly on expressions and emotions of the character’s face, on a prop, In a close up shot the background is usually very blurred and closes in on the object on the screen. As this is a very intimate shot.