Camera shots

cinematography: To do with the framing, lighting, focus and positioning of the camera.

Deep focus: Depth applied to the area in focus within the frame, needs lots of light. Foreground, middle ground and background remain in focus.

Shallow focus: Narrow depth of field, it implies that only one plane of frame will remain sharp and clear.

Racking focus- makers change the focus on lenses to a subject in background from the foreground, and the other way round. Shifts audiences attention from one point to another

Zoom shot- maker changes focal length of lens in middle of the shot. Appears to get closer and further away at the same time

Rate- takes frames away from the second it speeds up and add more then it slows down.

Angle of framing- film from below or above the subject of the frame, is known as low or high angle.

Level of framing- height at which the camera is positioned

Canted framing- the camera is not level but tilted, used in action films and other that have lots of movement, displays disorder

Following shot/reframing- follows a character with pans, tilts and tracking. Focuses all the viewers attention on the character.

Point of view shot- places the camera where the viewer would imagine a characters gaze to be
Wide angle lens- distort the edges of a frame to emphasise the amount of space in the spot.

Extremely long shot- the scale of what is being seen, is tiny.

Long shot- the scale of what is being seen is small.

Medium shot- what is being viewed is taking up almost the entire height of the screen

Medium close up- what is being viewed is large and takes up most of the screen

Close up- what is being viewed is quite large and
takes up the entire screen e.g a persons head

Extreme close up- what is being viewed is very large, e.g part of a face

Crane shot- mounting a camera on a crane device, the weight of the camera is balanced by free weights at the other end where the camera man controls the shots.

Stedicam shot- for motion tracking shots. Harness that supports the camera

Pan- camera movement that follows the action

Tilt- vertical pan. Moves up, down rather than from one side to another.

Tracking shot- follows action through space in a variety of directions

Whip pan- like normal pan but with quicker movement