Video Shots & AnglesTerminology

Subject Distance- distance between the camera and the subjectbeing shot

Types include:• close-up• medium shot• full shot• long shot

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istance

Horizontal Camera Position

Front Angle- camera faces the subject

Profile shot- camera about 90º

off center

Rear angle- camera behind

the subject

3/4Front Angle- camera 45 degrees off

subject

Vertical Camera Angle PositionHIGH- camera is positioned above the actor

NEUTRAL- camera is positioned about eye level of the actor

LOW- camera is positioned below the actor

Establishing Shot Used to introduce the audience to the characters

and general scene attributes such as location, time of day, etc.

This scene shows the actor boarding an airplane- thereby establishing the location for future scenes.

Over-the-Shoulder

The example shows an over-the-shoulder shot. Shoulder shots help to create depth by including one subject in the foreground and

another in the background.

Cutaway ShotA cutaway shot is used to show something not in the main camera shot. It is regularly used to show a subject from the actors point of view.

In this clip, the shot is cutaway to see the object (a laptop) that the actor is viewing.

Insert or “Cut-in” ShotSimilar to a cutaway shot. Used to show close detail.

In this clip, the camera cuts-in to a close-up of the object

the actor is reaching towards.

Point of View

Used to show the viewers what the actor is seeing. In the clip the point of view of Yao Ming is shown as he admires the computer in the lap of Verne Troyer.

Shot Population• Single

• Two-shot

• Three-shot

Rule of Thirds

The Rule of Thirds is useful in a wide range of subjects from photography to publishing and layout design. Imagine the screen divided into a series of grids as shown on the left. Try to have important aspects of any composition line up in the grid.

The green spot should be your main focal point during a single shot. Try not to “center” the subject.

Storyboards consist of…1. A Picture2. A Description- for the camera

operatora. Sceneb. Type of Shot/Anglec. What is going on in the Picture

3. Audio- for the actors1. Dialogue2. Music3. Sound Effects

Description/VideoCU of an upset woman in front of her computer. Zooms out to MS

“Oh no, not again…why can’t this Computer work? I always have to get someone to fix it but it takes forever and my proposal is due this afternoon!”

Audio

Description/Video

Audio

Description/Video

Audio

Description/Video

Audio

Description/Video

Audio

Description/Video

AudioOh no, not again…why can’t thisComputer work? I always have to getsomeone to fix it but it takes forever and myproposal is due this afternoon!

CU of an upset woman in front of hercomputer. Zooms out to MS

(Ring) Hello…oh hello Rick. I am soglad it is you…are you busy for lunch?I can take you to eat if you can fix thiscomputer of mine.

ECU of phone ringing…zoom out to womanon the phone.

CU of Rick

Sure, how about I come by aroundeleven thirty? OK, see you then.

Music playing, as MS of Rick boarding the subway.

She really ought to think about getting someTraining…but hey I always get a free lunch.

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• Storyboards (SB) must be completed and approved before filming.

• You must carry your storyboard and ID with you at all times while filming.

• SB should have the names of the people in your video- do not include people “walking the

halls”.

• You may not enter academic hallways, SNGC, or parking lots- only the commons, vocational hall, and back practice field area.