Coraline: Camera techniques

Extreme close up:

The ECU (also known as XCU) gets right in and shows extreme detail. You would normally need a specific reason to get this close. It is too close to show general reactions or emotion except in very dramatic scenes.

Close up:
A close-up or closeup in filmmaking, television production, still photography, and the comic strip medium is a type of shot that tightly frames a person or object.

Medium Close up:The medium closeup is half way between a mid shot and aclose up. This shot shows the face more clearly, without getting uncomfortably close.

Medium Shot:

In a movie a medium shot, mid shot (MS), or waist shot is a camera angle shot from a medium distance.

Medium Long Shot:Also known as a three-quarters shot. Frames the whole subject from the knees up. An intermediate shot between the long shot and the medium shot.

Long Shot:In film, a view of a scene that is shot from a considerable distance, so that people appear as indistinct shapes. An extreme long shot is a view from an even greater distance, in which people appear as small dots in the landscape if at all (eg. a shot of New York's skyline).

Extreme Long Shot:
A view of a scene that is shot from a considerable distance, so that people appear as indistinct shapes.

Low Angle:
Low angle is when you look like you're lying on the ground and when the things around you is bigger.

High Angle:
High angle is when things from below are shorter/smaller than you and it is a technique where the camera looks down on the subject from a high angle.

Eye level:
used as an establishing shot to set the location of a scene in films, they can also capture action or objects that may be obscured by other figures on a ground-level view.

Birds eye View:
Bird's eye view is defined as a view from above as though you were a bird looking down on someone or something

Dutch tilt:
A Dutch tilt is a camera shot in which the camera angle is deliberately slanted to one side.

Pan:
to photograph or televise while rotating a camera on its vertical or horizontal axis in order to keep a moving person or object in view.

Tilt:
Tilting is a cinematographic technique in which the camera stays in a fixed position but rotates up/down in a vertical plane.

Tracking:
A tracking shot is any shot where the camera follows backward, forward or moves alongside the subject being recorded.

Point of View:
A point of view shot is a short film scene that shows what a character is looking at.

Over the shoulder:
an over the shoulder shot is a shot of someone or something taken from the perspective or camera angle from the shoulder of another person.

Mise En Scene:
Mise-en-scène is an expression used to describe the design aspect of a film production:


What am I learning:
to learn different type of shots

How does this show my learning:
By showing the definitions of the shots

What am I wondering as a result of this learning:
How many more shots are there