Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Cinematography

Cinematography-Camera Shots

Framing- is an art of selection. The edges of the image creates a frame that includes oe excludes aspects of what occurs in front of the camera.

Canted Frame- is a view in which the frame is not level.

Camera Distance or Scale- Extreme long shot a framing in which the scale of the object shown is very small: a building, landscape, or crowd of people will fill the screen.
Long Shot- a framing which the scale of the object shown is small: a standing human figure would appear nearly the height of the screen. It can show a character and her/his surroundings in a single frame.

Medium Long Shot- Framing such an an object four or five feet high would fill most of the screen vertically. Also called plain americain, given its recurrence in he Western genre.

Medium Close-up- A framing in which the scale of the object shown is fairly large; a human figure from the chest up would fill most of the screen.

Close-up- A framing in which the scale of the object shown is relatively large, in a close-up a person's head, or soem other similarity sized object would fill the frame.

Extreme close-up- A framing in which the scale of the object shown in very large, most commonly, a small object or part of the body usually shot with a zoom lens.

Crane Shot- A shot with the camera above the ground and moving through the air. The camera is placed on a crane (basically, a large cantilevered arm) or similar device. Crane shots are often or extreme long shots.

Steady Cam- can create a long  steady shot.

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