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Angles
The building blocks of the
cinematic language.
Camera Angle
The camera angle determines both
the audiences viewpoint, or how
they see the story, and the physical
amount of area covered in a shot.
Vocab
Aesthetics adj. Concerned with beauty or the
appreciation of beauty. Noun- A set of principles
underlying and governing the work of a particular artist
or artistic movement.
Genre A category of artistic composition
characterized by similarities in form, style and subject
matter.
Cinema The production of movies as an art or
industry.
Frame
Shot
Scene
Sequence
The Frame
The Shot
A shot defines a continuous camera take with out
disruption.
May be referred to as a panel in pre-production
storyboards.
May be referred to as a take, during production.
May be referred to as a clip in post-production,
editing.
The Scene
A scene defines the place or setting
where the action is being filmed.
Each new place (setting) maybe a new
scene.
Borrowed from theater. Where acts
were broken down with different
scenery or settings.
The Sequence
A sequence is a series of scenes, or
shots that complete a subject or idea.
A sequence may occur in a single
setting (place), or in several settings
(places).
A sequence ends when the subject
matter changes.
Camera Angles
Objective
Subjective
Point of View
High Angle
Low Angle
Dutch Angle
Point of View
A point of view shot is when the camera angle
records the scene from a particular point players
point of view.
A point of view shot is as close as an objective
shot can be with out being a subjective shot.
In a point of view shot the camera is positioned
cheek to cheek with a character.
P.O.V.s are often followed by (O.T.S) over the
shoulder shots during dialog exchange.
Vocab
Cutaway A Shot that is not a key element in the
action, commonly used to bridge what would be a
jump cut.
Jump Cut A shot that constitutes an error in
editing which result in an on-screen object or
character appearing to jump positions.
Headroom The amount of room between the top
of a players head and the top of the viewfinder or
frame.
SHOTS
Extreme long shot (ELS or XLS) shows a vast
area from a great distance. Also know as a wide
shot.
Long shot (LS) a take of the entire action of a
scene. A shot that sets ups the scene and gives a
general feel for the event.
Entrance and exits of characters, cars, planes.
Establishing shot (EST) this is a camera shot that
sets up what is about to take place. This is usually
a sequence starting point.
Camera Moves
Dolly (in / out)- Physically moving the camera, its
tri-pod, and dolly towards or away from the set.
You can dolly in or dolly out